I always try to leave a note for the image that I rated highly that finished lowest in the voting, and in this challenge this entry has that dubious distinction.
I think you were done in by the voter's notion of "fine". I could easily see this being hung in a modernist museum, with its spiraling questions of how an image represents reality, how letters and symbols stand for a concrete objects, how pigment on paper comes to take on the meaning of a depicted object, and how labels themselves shift our understanding of an object. It just goes 'round and 'round. Ouroboros eating his own tail.
While I think this plaque is hilarious, and might enjoy seeing the item itself hung in an exhibit, I don't find a photograph of it at all appealing, nor do I consider the photograph to be a contribution to fine art. Just my personal take on this, of course.
Strikes me as a self-referential work, a commentary on its own existence. A mundane photo of the mundane postmodern piece. Are criticisms of criticisms empty?
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