I was the 3rd Highest Seller at the Holiday Sale

in blurt •  last year 

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1st day at the Anomaly Booth

There were 22 reticent hawkers at the art association, and all besides a couple of us were Christmas heavy and creative art light. The closest I achieved any seasonal theme was a COVID snowman urinating his name, “Mr. C” in the fresh powder fall. The sale was four weekends long. During the week I painted downstairs and kept adding the days’ work to my little station. I wish I snapped a photo of the last day. Just stuff everywhere. Too much.

I made $382. Third highest seller.

Humans meet at a busy corner of the heart for Santa Claus gnomes and cardinals on greeting cards, and then there is that unbeknownst darker place where rare expressions of madness and light are found while traveling adulthood inside a crazy nation-state of dolts. I think I sold well because all is not lost, and the majority (whether they know it or not) have not yet been dumbed down to final annhilation realities.

Your regular you might not think about strangling each individual member of the military industrial complex for the crime of stockpiling nukes, but I am quite certain your subconscious does. The latter rips off all the vinyl siding in the neighborhood and wonders why it was ever made to look like painted wood. It would throw the TV out the window too if status didn’t trump clarity 99% of the time. We are all out of our minds, and this is a good thing to feed me, says the subconscious. Bad taste and murder are flourishing. So life craves change as a matter of it and death, while the constipated you in your life might not ever get the gist of a recent subterranean art purchase.

I am honored to have people want a hard copy of my (sub)conscious. To hang it on a wall, to pass by it in the night, to think with it… It’s not fine art, that’s for sure. So why is it ever tolerated on such a personal level? Is it more like sharing the obvious because what I am (the beautifully ugly), you must be too? Can my work, or just my working, be a reminder that bureaucracy has smothered our conscious life to barely breathable, and we better kick that killer in the crotch asap?

Don’t really know. Just very thankful any person would care as much as I do about the Texas-sized microplastic goop flow in the sea, and call (subconsciously) for the immediate eradication of millionaires feeding in three homes with 17 bathrooms flushing simultaneously. But I tell you, no more selling unless I can get rich—really, really rich. Rich enough to send Elon Musk screaming naked out into an ever-expanding heavenverse.

Please just come over and talk to me. Be open for conversation that stings. I might bash Christmas. You know as well as I do that Jesus hasn’t made a single true convert in 112 years. I might also remind you that the FBI is the people’s enemy, and mouth breathing will send you to an early grave. But I’ll provide the beverage and you can take a painting home. Our feelings will get hurt, especially the first few times around. Keep coming back though, and soon neither of us will give a damn about the state of human beings. We’ll graduate to boilermakers and sing out our sloppy song of the world, inebriately. What else is there to do while we wait for the subconscious to surface? Paperwork?

I made money at a sale I wasn’t supposed to make money at because human beings are way more complex than any trite bite Netflix can lay out to snap at. They often surprise because they must. To sustain a hopeful grandchild future, we just need to see more of the broken you (and me) that has not already become the suppressive them.

If you think my paintings can catalyst, then take whatever you wish. Here is a book that has helped me succeed. And here is a painting that has not:

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Pretty Thing at the Beach 2022. Acrylic on paper, 12 x 16"

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Thank you curationcoconut!

At some point i must have said this guy is great i must follow him on blurt, but then i forgot like a title in instagram...

You are inspirational!

Feedback is so rare and so welcome when positive. great words to wake up to. Thank you! Better than coffee!

No, Sir, it's not subconscious - I hate them consciously!
(Yossarian, in Catch 22)

Glad to see the spirit of new year is... volatile.

Ha! Excellent. Though I’m still half in hiding...
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed” — Yossarian:)

I read Catch-22 at school, and have dipped into it again - it's a long book but has a lightness of touch for what is quite heavy matter.
Plus a brilliant premise that we find everywhere.

I don’t sell my paintings anymore… I just take a photo and share here on Blurt, Hive, or make a very short video of the painting process and share on YouTube … it’s more profitable to earn crypto from posting a photo or a video of a painting.

You can easily earn $ 100 a day sharing photos and videos of your paintings.

Infinite earnings on YouTube ….

Beautiful paintings as always. I’m a new convert and follower of Jesus ... His name is actually Yeshu in Aramaic. Yeshu Bar Yosef … ישו בר יוסף
He also taught Advaita Vedanta ( non duality) ….

Jesus says “ I am God” … I am …

God is One (Everything is God) Nothing else exists…. Ein od Milvado.

So now I am learning Aramaic and Hebrew so I can better understand his (Yeshu’s) teaching.

Yeshu had much in common with Alan Watts.

I love watching his old lectures on YouTube.

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Book Overview

A revelatory primer on what it means to be human, from the perfect guide for a course correction in life and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the "outside" world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Watts has crafted a revelatory primer on what it means to be human--and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.
There might be too much energy on Blurt. I’m not used to responses—being in my head all the time:)
Nature, Man and Woman is my favorite Watts book.

Blurt has enough “good energy” to make a very good life as an Artist. I already bought a new car with the Blurt I earned from sharing my artwork and photography here.

Yes! There is paperwork to be done! We zombified creatures see no problems with having to prove who we are, and that our intentions are good, every step we take. Why not? It's not as bad as stockpiling nukes or anything. Jeez, you make it seem as though we are a big ole bunch of slaves slogging away on a chain gang. But we're HUMANS so we should do as we are told and pay for whatever our rulers want to do with our money. What else is there to do? Who would build the roads? Who would care if we licensed our dogs? Those dogs could all get rabies at once then maraud down all the streets with noisemakers and bring all of our houses down! So, as you surely can see, we must pay for war, there is no other way for us to get taxed into oblivion and buried in returns. Which we all know is the way to enlightenment. So suck it up and sell those paintings!

I really love that one that didn't make you rich.


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😂
I am learning how to use emojis. This one is LOL-ing.

Glad I could entertain you for a bit. I really enjoyed reading your post.


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Thank you @owasco:)