£ 111,019,834.32

How does one assign value to something? The ways are numerous,

but after much thought I chose one specific way.

Knowing that value, money, the economy, society, and everything in it

isn't 'real', merely a social construct, created and sustained

as a result of the collective introvecta of the human egregore,

I decided not follow any conventional pricing strategies in deciding on a value for the

one piece of art that has so much of my emotional energy

contained within it.

I was certainly not going to outsource the valuing of my work

to any outside individual or agency. Why would I give my power away in such a way,

by asking someone else to put a value on something I have created?

Instead, after trying several different value-assigning methods in my mind,

I decided on the one number that has the most personal connection to me,

the one piece of data that has followed me, unchanging, since my entry into

this world. The 'timestamp' of my creation if you like.

The date and time of my birth.

A quick 'temporal conversion' from time into currency, adding the necessary commas, decimal point and a £ sign and the price tag was created.

Artist: Mark J Rothberg

Date: 2020 - 2026

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Dimensions: 100cm x 150cm

Price: £111,019,834.32p

This art may not be worth its price tag to you, but it will be to somebody.

You see, out there in the vast ocean of cosmic possibility,

is an individual whose mind is vibrating on a specific frequency,

the very same frequency that matches that of my desire.

Perhaps they have a serious case of affluenza,

or maybe a very large tax bill they need to reduce in some way.

The exact reason is neither here nor there.

However, like a lightning rod, the universe will conspire

to bring together those two powerful frequencies in perfect harmony

for the express purpose of transacting an exchange of energies

so that both parties mutually benefit from it.

I have spoken my desire, the intention is set.

The wheels of actualisation are in motion.

The results will be fast, the outcome certain.

Make it so, and so it is.

Only if your mind is limited by the self-imposed constraints of herd mentality.

Afterall, we live in a bizarre time at present. Existing in a terminally end-stage capitalist nightmare where self-preservation trumps self-actualisation.

One in which blank wall space at the RA summer exhibit is priced at £100K, or a banana duct taped to a wall sells for $6.2million, or the top prize in one of the games on the National Lottery website in mid August reached £520,000,000.

Half a billion, won by one person for nothing more than a few pounds 'investment'.

You get where I'm going with this I'm sure. We live in crazy times.

At this point, it really doesn't matter what value I assign to something.

However, it is my end goal to escape, as much as I possibly can anyway, the absolute circus the world has turned into over the last several years.

What would I do with £111m?

A lot of people would have no idea what to do with such a sum of money. Not me.

I would buy up country estates and land, turn it into regenerative, organic sustainable agriculture,

protecting it from large corporate interests like Black Rock and the like,

or AI companies from building more data centres and wasting water.

Small strategically positioned outposts in areas of higher elevation, but with productive land and their own water sources, becoming independent of the grid and the increasingly digitised world of

central bank digital currencies, UBI, AI led surveillance infrastructure, digital ID, Gov.UK wallets, Agenda 2030 and all the other dystopian nonsense that's planned for the coming years.