The August edition of Visual Codec (M., I loves ya, but I refuse to play along with the lower-case thing) is out, with a musing I enjoyed from Carrie E.A. Scott about whether and when the prices of Seattle artists will start to climb.

Scott, who works at James Harris Gallery, writes that “with such top tier products as SuttonBeresCuller’s Three Dragon” restaurant (up now at Lawrimore Project; my take here), she finds herself wishing she could buy something at least partly for investment purposes, given the upwardly mobile mood of Seattle’s art community these days.

It’s funny to think of SuttonBeresCuller, performance and installation artists, as making “products,” and it doesn’t seem to me that they’ve figured out how to make truly standalone objects (or even that the idea interests them beyond finding something to sell—an artist’s gotta eat, but it doesn’t necessarily make for their best work)—but in that vein, I took a look at what they’ve sold in their first commercial gallery show:

PENCIL, 2002 Wood, graphite, aluminum, polystyrene 117 x 11 x 11 inches $4,500 (SOLD)

TRAILER PARK, 2003, 10 x 15 x 6.6 feet (and growing), $8,500 (SOLD)

HAVE YOU SEEN PATCHES II, 2005 C-print 24 x 32 inches Edition/5 $1,700 (Ed 1/5 SOLD)

BEAST OF BURDEN, 2004, C-print, 20 x 29 inches, Edition of 5, $1,600. (Ed1/5 SOLD; Ed 2/5 SOLD)

Okada, 2004 C-print 30 x 45 inches Edition of 5 $2,200 (Ed1/5 SOLD)

I LIKE THANKSGIVING AND THANKSGIVING LIKES ME, 2001 C-print 12 x 18 inches Edition of 5, $600 (ED 1/5 SOLD)

SEARS PORTRAITS, 2002-present, Color photographs, Dimensions variable, Editions of 25, $50-250 (5 Editions SOLD)

So … anybody for a Chinese restaurant? It’s going for $30,000. (Scott Lawrimore jokes that the price of the Chinese restaurant will be $500,000 after the show comes down. “Get ‘em while they’re hot,” he says.)

(I had lunch down there yesterday. Quite good. Quite like Shanghai Garden, I’m told. You can make reservations, 206-501-1231. Tomorrow’s the last day.)