Via we make money not art, here’s a curious art project. It’s a chair with magnetic stripe card reader and spikes that retract when you slide your credit card into a slot on the chair to download a “License to Sit”. The artist, Steve Mann, has this to say on his work:
The chair illustrates what Mann calls deconomics, the sabotage economics. You don’t buy the chairs. You instead buy the seating. Likewise, “pay per wear” clothing could also save money. Deconomics makes economic sense. So much sense that it’s ridiculous!
In my experience, the more an artist explains his work, the less sense it makes to me. I mean, it’s a clever concept in and of itself, but as soon as he contextualizes it, I’m underwhelmed.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Know what you mean. For me, art is a lot about activating my imagination, so if the owner explains his or her intent, there’s no longer any chance for interpretation.
Art is like humour that way: explanation is loss.