Transcendent Value

 

Have you ever thought about how the actual simple wooden chair in the painting above by Vincent Van Gogh was probably worth just a few dollars while his painting would easily command a bid at auction in the millions of dollars?

Granted, in today's dollars a simple wooden chair with a woven seat would not be super cheap if bought new  (on Amazon).

And a small-print copy of the painting is worth around $180.

Still, it's small change compared to the millions of bucks an original painting of that chair by Vincent Van Gogh or even another celebrated artist would fetch in an auction house.

This “exchange” says a lot about the transcendence of conscious perception and its awareness of the beauty of simple things --not to mention the value that awareness has in our lives.