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I grew up successful Los Angeles during the 1980s with a azygous ma connected payment successful the seedy backlots of Hollywood’s wealth machine. I was meant to beryllium a statistic, but graffiti creation saved my life. Reaganomics was driving the slump and biology degradation astatine the time, spawning a monolithic younker empowerment question of escaped captious thought; fractional of it was fueled by creativity portion the different fractional was enraged by the deficiency of accountability this corrupt strategy had to offer. From gangs and graffiti writers to tagbangers and skaters, underground hip-hoppers and punkers, we were latchkey kids successful pursuit of axenic vandalism and adventure, looking to get distant with it. Simply put, we were dissatisfied souls and graffiti was our voice.
Gettn’ Away With It, 2000, 5x6’ Oil connected canvas
Being a extremist teen attracted to changeless trouble, if not for psychedelics successful the 1990s I would’ve mislaid my mind. It gave maine a walk to spot deeper into the mainframe of the carnal illusion of world and allowed these ideas to go the taxable substance successful my art. Early connected I saw demons successful authorization figures and slaves successful the moving class. It was a benignant of “Prison Planet” infinitesimal of realization. I made it my ngo to critique this circus successful hopes to assistance others spot done the bullshit lies and propaganda of large government. Works similar that of renaissance creator Hieronymus Bosch inspired maine to overgarment these visions arsenic I experienced them connected the streets.
Common Sense, 1994, 4x5’ Acrylic connected canvas
My works became precise fashionable with the counterculture that was penetrating the look and consciousness of our famed Melrose alleyways and Avenue, arsenic good recovered wide entreaty overseas successful Tokyo and beyond. But this each came to a screeching halt connected September 11, 2001, erstwhile our satellite changed overnight, creating an Orwellian nightmare for anyone who wanted to talk freely.
Burning Bush, 2001, 24x30” Acrylic connected board
For maine this was a benignant of revelation that vindicated overmuch of what my work, immoderate of it prophetic, had illustrated up until that point. But this was nary clip for creating creation that spoke information to power, and truthful the censorship I experienced was extreme. I personally suffered a decennary of disassociation and abandonment from galore patrons and peers — I was dropped from magazines, and immoderate galleries wouldn’t interaction me.
Boycott Your Lifestyle, 2002, Spray overgarment mural (Echo Park, Los Angeles)
Of people the expansive irony is that what was antecedently deemed conspiracy has present been proven true. So portion for immoderate my enactment was dangerous, others recovered their reflection successful it and a caller subculture was forming. It wasn’t until the 2008 fiscal illness and my information successful the Occupy L.A. protests that I learned astir the Bitcoin web and subculture; I past began studying its extremist philosophical substructure, learning for the archetypal clip the existent past of fiat wealth and what the U.S. dollar really represents.
Delusions of Grandeur, 2011, 2x4’ Acrylic connected canvas
Money has ever been my top struggle arsenic an creator due to the fact that creating bully creation requires that you attraction profoundly astir what you create, adjacent if it offends the nationalist oregon the would-be collector. For me, the pursuit of information successful doing creation was successful changeless absorption to the economical strategy underpinning its due functioning. At times I grin and carnivore it; it’s a conflict to endurethe self-deprecating ritual of gaining and losing unbacked fiat currencies that proceed to provender the beast of the U.S. subject and pointless foriegn policy. This is wherever galore artists find complacency and apathy arsenic they acquiesce to the mundane. For it is said that we are taught what to think, not however to think, and present the byproduct of this has its roots successful complacency and it is what they thatch successful government indoctrination camps manufacturing homogenized consent. What is required is the extremist dissociation from ideas that person go obsolete and nary longer service their purpose.
The Machine Needs More Lubricant, 2002, 4x6’ Acrylic connected canvas
Bitcoin embodies this gyration — it is the astir important 1 of our clip with a currency I tin get behind, offering a caller alternate system based connected non confiscatable dependable wealth principles. It liberated maine arsenic an creator and successful galore ways, similar graffiti art, saved my beingness a 2nd clip by empowering maine to proceed connected creating conscious creation for a assemblage that reflects this aforesaid sentiment - Bitcoin is the caller graffiti. Once you escaped yourself, you privation to escaped others and successful doing truthful creation tin beryllium utilized arsenic a psychic crowbar to the stubborn caput and is simply a committedness connected a way you can’t travel backmost from. It was clip to instrumentality a onslaught astatine the strategy with my creation successful a caller signifier and spot however galore heads I could awaken.
Freedom for Humanity, 2012, Spray overgarment mural (Brick Lane, London)
In October 2012 I traveled to London to overgarment a mural that would talk to the existent information of humanity. While connected the formation I sketched retired my designs for an iconic enactment inspired by my post-9/11 reasoning connected planetary authorities and the economical enslaved system. Mayer Amschel Rothschild once said, “Give maine power of a nation’s wealth and I attraction not who makes the laws.” Using this arsenic my ideological starting point, I chose to picture the likenesses of specified aboriginal crook of the period ”robber barons,” specifically Jacob Rothschild, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Paul Warburg, arsenic good Aleister Crowley who was a benignant of philosophical guru to the ruling elite of that clip and a well-known Satanist. These men and their dynasties, whom I judge don’t subscribe to immoderate tenable quality codification of morality, person enactment parameters astir what our world consists of; successful doing truthful they are destroying our planet, indebting america successful the trillions, profiting successful the billions, portion displacing millions and financing wars done amerciable taxation. These wicked banksters person so been playing a crippled of Monopoly connected the backs of the moving class.
My mural evolved into a acheronian imaginativeness of an apocalyptic world fueled by their greed, filling our skies with coal, atomic and chemtrail pollution. It was situated alternatively poetically adjacent to “the City,” London’s fiscal center, perpetrators of these fractional reserve banking crimes against humanity that led to the illness of the markets successful 2008. It exploded passim the wide media and became the halfway of contention and condemnation, not erstwhile but twice. In 2018, successful the lead-up to the U.K. wide elections the pursuing year, self-serving politicians and their mainstream media puppets utilized my mural to conduct a ruthless smear campaign against past person of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and myself. They dug up a remark Corbyn had made connected my Facebook station successful 2012 successful defence of my mural’s removal based connected grounds of escaped speech. Critics took liberty to weaponise my creation and twist my words, conflating my anti-plutocartic connection with a grossly mendacious narrative arsenic being anti-semitic, manipulative rhetoric and politricks designed to support my mural from speaking the information astir the economical predicament we each find ourselves in.
The information is that powerfulness concedes powerfulness to nary 1 and is highly uncomfortable with escaped thought. This psychopathology implants nefarious notions into our subconsciousness and concocts divisive acts to support america separated, fake quality to support america arguing, each portion they proceed to rob and pillage the earth. This is the satellite I painted, it is the satellite we unrecorded successful now, and this dialog is astir important if we arsenic a taxon are to marque it to our adjacent level of evolution.
This was a societal media combat for my beingness that I bash not privation upon anyone, but I’m gladsome it happened due to the fact that it showed the satellite conscionable however wacko the media, the politicians, and their financiers were becoming successful their effort to regain power implicit a nine who is waking up. Since my mural’s instauration successful 2012 “Freedom for Humanity,” which I renamed “False Profits” successful its aboriginal iterations, has been circulating arsenic a almighty meme astir the globe successful its intended context.
Throughout my travels from Acapulco to Miami I find it continues to resonate with a generational question of like-minded individuals existing nether akin circumstances - anarchists, progressive radicals, arsenic good galore conservatives, libertarians, independents, escaped marketplace entrepreneurs - radical conscionable seeking an alternate satellite without rulers and their unjust fiscal policies. The 1 communal denominator that unanimously ties america each unneurotic is Bitcoin, determination is lone one.
Bitcoin Conference 2021, Spray overgarment burner (Wynwood, Miami)
Bitcoin gives america the reply to escaped ourselves from these statist shackles and tyrannical grip of the banking globalists and corporations ruling our world. It holds an electromagnetic powerfulness of attraction and compensation done our hard-earned impervious of enactment that fills america with joy, stemming from the information that we are not supporting different people’s conflicts.
False Profits, 2016, 4x5’ Acrylic connected canvas
Once you recognize Bitcoin everything other becomes rather transparent. The illusion of our strategy and erstwhile archetypes that person held presumption successful our lives, holding backmost humanity from its improvement for astir of our written history, these structures of nine are wholly corrupt and sick from the wrong out. With this cognition the cognitive dissonance dissolves and you awaken arsenic a self-realized, self-responsible idiosyncratic who is present successful power of your autonomy, privateness and freedom, you clasp the keys to your ain destiny.
The Allegory of Complacency, 2007, 2x4’ Oil connected canvas
But nary 1 is an land and the isle of emotion is uncharted. Therefore, we each request a destination, a goal, and each different to get there, and since uncovering this caller assemblage my beingness has changed people magnetically. I find my aged 1990s mantra resurfacing again with caller occurrence - if graffiti is the dependable of the dissatisfied soul, and Bitcoin is the caller graffiti, past Bitcoin is the dependable of the dissatisfied psyche and I americium present to overgarment the gyration forward. PEACE, MEAR ONE
American Revolution, 2015, 5x7’ Oil connected canvas
This is simply a impermanent station by MEAR ONE. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.
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