the best black box that I have known.

"This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on ebay."

Have you checked your emails lately?

Richard, here's the thing Richard. If you don't check your emails daily, you won't know your status as bidder in the auction. And if you win the auction, the box could sell itself before you even know it to be yours. You should be checking your emails at least daily. Because you won't have ever known it to be yours, the box.

I am imploring you to consider the ramifications. The simple fact that you have placed a bid on the box is alone cause for concern. Because it could be yours and it could take those pieces of you and put them inside, and you might not ever see them again, because the box moves on its own. In that way, it's bigger than you, the box, Richard. It kills via automation.

You must take advantage of this unique investment opportunity, Richard. To own the box, and to know it while you have the chance. To know death, this is what we offer, a unique investment opportunity. To know it, death, that is, and to give some small part of yourself over to it, before it moves on, automated, this is why you bid on the box.

We want you to be part of this thing, a unique investment opportunity. Please, keep checking your emails Richard.

The name of this sculpture is A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, by Caleb Larsen, 2009. The box has an ethernet jack that automatically generates an auction for itself on eBay. When it's sold, it auctions itself off again. It's currently selling for $4000. You should buy it here.