The Custodian's Contract

The core dilemma of Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art (PLCFA) is protecting assets whose value actively resists monetization. The revolutionary legal answer is the Custodian's Contract, a structural firewall that fundamentally inverts the power dynamic, transforming the owner into a temporary custodian compelled to act to ensure the object's Functional Endurance. This is not passive ownership; it is a system of compulsory sustained labor. The Anti-Liquidity Lock (Clause 1) is the first decisive move, mandating a zero-sum non-transfer period of 25 years to make the asset financially sterile and defeat the speculative impulse entirely.

The longevity of this anti-speculative model is secured by the Archival Maintenance Commitment (Clause 3), which requires the custodian to submit annual documentation and Narrative Continuity Reports detailing how the object is integrated into the custodian’s Maison of Self. This data feeds directly into the object's essential ethical metric, the Moral Weight Per Material (MWPM) score. Neglecting the asset—allowing it to sit unused in a vault—is considered moral neglect and causes the MWPM to plummet, reinforcing that preservation of conceptual value is built on endurance and accountability, not on liquidity or profit.