Scrap Book 8

The primary object in this photograph is the chain mechanism, rotating on the two wheels with protruding teeth.  Most likely this contraption was constructed in a factory, by machines.  The design perhaps, originally, was a work of art, a vision that enabled one man to forever change the world of transportation.  But is a coy of the Mona Lisa printed out on a piece of computer paper a work of art?  Or is it that when we consider the Mona Lisa, and contemplating that computer printout as a work of art, though our language may be understood to refer to the paper in front of us.  However, I believe we are in fact referring to the actual painting itself, and merely using this copy as a reference point, a vantage point.  But in essence, the copy is still just a copy, not in itself a work of art.  In this way I think the bike chain is not a work of art.