Genesis 004

Given the audience I’m speaking too I know I’m not alone in seeing the world through a different lens.

The fact you’ve found Ungovernable Misfits tells me your experience of day to day life in the fiat world is likely different to most.

Ive found seeing, feeling, and thinking differently to be a double edged sword.
I can see light, truth, hope and beauty where others see darkness, and Evil, lies, and despair where others see nothing at all.

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

The “neWs” the “trUth” the “SciENce” “muuHHhhrOOads” and “thATs cool but Did you catch tHe gaMe laSt nigHt” can be exhausting. Maybe we aren’t mad but it can certainly feel that way at times.

Im not ashamed to admit things got pretty dark prior to finding other like minded people who questioned our spoon fed reality and demanded freedom. I let things get to me, I became sick and unable to cope with the life I was living.

Help came in the form of pills and phycologists who would talk in circles with no results. I was told to write down my thoughts in a diary to be analysed. I explained this would be a useless exercise as I couldn’t verbalise my thoughts let alone make sense of them on paper. I would just sit alone at home with a pen staring at the paper and nothing made sense.

Weeks passed and things continued to get worse until one evening I remembered how good I felt while creating. I started small, painting at my kitchen table and it felt good. Things quickly spiralled to a point where I could think of nothing else.

I threw away the diary and pen and stopped speaking to the psychiatrist.

I threw away the pills and stopped participating in my old fiat life.

I Painted for the love of creation, it allowed me time to reorganise, refine, restructure or to completely get away from my thoughts.

I used it as a tool to step out of the reality I was living in and create my own. I could spend days lost in the details of a painting and this allowed the rest of my mind to slow down, rest and heal.

I dropped everything else and spent all of my time creating. People began to wonder where I had disappeared. Eventually after a year or so I allowed a few trusted people to come and see what I had been doing with all of my time. My entire house had morphed into an art studio with multiple paintings being worked on simitaniously in every room. I had enough work to fill a small gallery and people seemed to like what I was creating.

I was asked why I didn’t present my work at a gallery but I don’t like crowds and the idea of selling my work made me panic.

After a few more months had passed I realised if I didn’t start to sell some work I would no longer have the space or the funds to create any more. I decided to spend the next two months clearing, rebuilding and transforming my home into a gallery before doing a 3 day open house for friends and friends of friends. I was nervous to show what I had been creating and even more nervous to talk about it. It was clear to me that people liked the work because on day two everything I displayed had sold. It felt good to know something I created brought people joy but I hated the feeling of selling something personal to people I didn’t know.

This was around the time I first learned about bitcoin and freedom tech. The obsession I had for learning mixed with my hatred of the fake wanky art world sales process made me decide not to sell my work again and only to create for myself.

I started the podcast to learn from others in the bitcoin world and threw my time into this since 2018. I still painted occasionally but much less as I had to take on fiat work to pay the bills.

Ungovernable misfits grew fast and mopped up all of my remaining time and I’ve accepted that I just had to wait for the right time to create again. That time is now. I miss it and I can no longer bear to work in fiat clown world. I want to take Ungovernable misfits and my creative process to the next level.

This feeling has been brewing for years now and it’s finally been triggered after selling artwork to a fellow Ungovernable Misfit. Unlike previous art sales where the cash in my hand and the experience of handing over my work left me feeling empty, this time it felt amazing.

I have made the decision to leave the fiat world completely and focus all of my time on UM and creating artwork. Every time someone buys my art it helps keep the show alive.

I love the fact my work is hanging on another freedom lovers wall and it’s even better to be paid in the best money there has ever been.

What I don’t love is writing, retroactively naming paintings or coming up with wanky bullshit stories about the painting to sound cool or smart. I create because I love to do it, I sell to Ungovernables only and refuse to write descriptions or work with art dealers.

If you love this painting then I’d love to sell it to you. If you require a long description and fake nonsense then fuck off to a fiat gallery.

MaxBBB

Size 67cm x 128cm

 

 

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