In The value of my dreams will not drown me, the weight of 48 bronze cowrie shells equates to Oluseye’s total body weight. The value of each sculpture is calculated in
relation to the artist’s weight and an outstanding debt from a bank loan he took out in 2016 to pursue a fulltime artistic practice:

Value of cowrie = (Debt ÷ Artist weight) × weight of cowrie bronze sculpture

Therefore, the specificity of each cowry shell’s pricing, to the exact decimal, is intentional.