The image of the object originally comes from a sixteenth century French decorative calendar and here implies status rather than functionality. I adapted the idea of something being excessively decorative into a contemporary object: the table of exchange rates. The table represents the fluctuating and unpredictable value of contemporary art in the global art market as the numbers on the chart do not make any sense in the real world in which values are often shifting or weightless. The broken frame could be understood more literally as a comment upon financial deregulation and recent economic uncertainty.