A Distinguished Private Collection: The Complete Holloway & Son Catalogue

The companion download to "The Worship of Efficiency" (The Art of Aiming, No. 3) - TaoTeTurquoise

WHAT'S IN THE DOWNLOAD

Every painting from the essay, reframed as what it was pretending to be the whole time: an auction catalogue.

THE CATALOGUE (22 pages)

fourteen lots, each with its formal label, its estimate, and a catalogue entry that decodes the art-history reference and lands the joke. Conditions of Sale included. All lots sold as seen.

PROVENANCE— The Ownership History of Lot 04

a full forensic authentication report on the goose, prepared by the house's Department of Authentication & Prior Restoration. Four private-equity owners, one credit-rating letter above default, every claim documented. Written for readers who think too much about how institutions actually work.

THREE LOTS WITHDRAWN BEFORE SALE

pieces that never appeared in the essay, including one the estate was not consulted about.

APPENDIX A · On the Eating of Living Things

the passage cut from the essay for mercy's sake, restored in full.

APPENDIX B · A Field Guide to the References

every hidden reference named: the Rembrandt, the Vermeer, the two Fates, the vanitas, the Rockwell, the singer under the bridge. Most readers catch three or four. The catalogue names them all.

THE ART, YOURS TO KEEP

all fourteen works at screen resolution for wallpapers and desktops. The cover lot comes in three aspect ratios, so the goose may be fed on whatever screen you keep.

And one file we have chosen not to mention. You'll find it if you go looking. Most people don't.

THE PRICE

Whatever you decide it was worth. The suggested figure is seven dollars— the collection cost several billion dollars to produce; we are rounding down. If you would rather pay in kind: subscribe at taoteturquoise.substack.com and turquoisesound.substack.com, or donate handsomely to the Institute of Wise Innovation at wiseinnovation.institute. The trustees consider any of these settlements payment in full.

Want true print resolution— something for a frame, a wall? Say so where the house can hear you: restack the post, or ask in the comments. The room asks; the edition appears.

HOLLOWAY & SON

Fine Extractions Since the Invention of the Subscription

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