1 year ago
Nashville, TN. — Bitcoin Magazine has unveiled the Bitcoin Magazine Art Gallery (BMAG), a show abstraction and storefront featuring a jailhouse compartment grounds dedicated to Bitcoin pioneer Ross Ulbricht, who faces a treble beingness condemnation positive 40 years for his relation successful founding the darknet marketplace Silk Road. The determination volition service arsenic an outlet for Bitcoin-related clothing, hardware and the people variation of Bitcoin Magazine, portion the creation assemblage volition diagnostic exclusive visuals from the starring creatives successful the Bitcoin abstraction arsenic good arsenic caller artists to showcase their work.
The grounds dedicated to Ulbricht is simply a recreation of his situation compartment astatine Tucson State Penitentiary. The 10-foot-by-6-foot space, which is the nonstop aforesaid size arsenic the country shared by Ulbricht and different prisoner, features robust bars and a descend and toilet operation recovered wrong American prisons. The grounds displays writings and paintings from Ulbricht, arsenic good arsenic scannable accusation sets astir Ulbricht’s story, sentencing and the ongoing ngo to unafraid his freedom. A mounted tv displays a video animation of drawings done by Ulbricht successful prison.
“I and Ross’s household are truthful grateful to BTC Inc for steadfastly supporting Ross passim the years and not letting him beryllium forgotten arsenic we enactment toward his freedom,” said Lynn Ulbricht, Ross’ mother. “This installation, which provides a facsimile of Ross’s cage and displays his astonishing work, is simply a almighty reminder that this exceptional antheral and pioneer is condemned to dice by incarceration unless thing changes.”
Prints of the artwork created by Ulbricht volition beryllium disposable for purchase, and each proceeds volition beryllium donated to FreeRoss.org. In addition, an archetypal coating done by Bitcoin Magazine’s creator successful residence, Tommy Marcheschi, volition beryllium offered to anyone consenting to marque a donation to the Ulbricht Freedom Trust of 183 cardinal sats, the sats equivalent of the dollar magnitude that Ulbricht was ordered to pay by the courts.
“We question to creatively stimulate donations and rise consciousness for the effort to escaped Ross Ulbricht and springiness him the remainder of his beingness back,” explained Marcheschi. “As agelong arsenic helium sits successful the custody of the State, nary of america ‘Bitcoiners’ are genuinely free.”
With Ulbricht entering his 10th twelvemonth successful prison, the grounds hopes to bring attraction to an contented that Bitcoin Magazine has sought to item successful the past, including hosting Ulbricht’s writing and featuring an audio message recorded by Ulbricht successful situation astatine its Bitcoin 2021 conference.
In summation to the Ulbricht exhibit, immoderate examples of the exceptional artwork that volition beryllium connected show see works similar Brekkie von Bitcoin’s carved calacatta marble sculpture “AWAKENING,” and Trevor Jones’ lipid and microcrystalline wax portion connected a transcript of the Financial Times entitled, “The Architect (Satoshi Nakamoto).”
Dennis Koch, Bitcoin Magazine’s creation assemblage coordinator, described wherefore this abstraction is important, saying, “Meetup locations similar Bitcoin Park successful Nashville oregon Bitcoin Commons successful Austin affirm that there’s nary replacement for spending clip with Bitcoiners successful existent life. The aforesaid goes for the caller Bitcoin Magazine Art Gallery. We privation to physique a tactical meetup and accumulation abstraction for artists. Nashville has a tangible bitcoin vibe, and BMAG is going to beryllium a large portion of this expanding scene.” Describing the nexus betwixt creation and bitcoin, Koch explained, “Selling artwork for sats is an artist's mode of mining. Artists cognize proof-of-work and vigor transmutation has ever been a portion of the alchemical process of painting."
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