Official legal notice 😅

typing fast , on commute with sweaty hands ...keeping an eye out for cancelations and platform changes. busy thoughts from too much coffee ...too much distance , and too much stress. 

 no, i still don't know what is going on with my kidnapped legal advisor or my awol partner. but ive become somewhat accustomed to this . ...

Hopefully this will be a slightly more articulate version than the one I spat out in the facebook field while trying to munch a Sandwich earlier. 

 The Original Arts Hole - yes before the Australian division started doing you tube videos. the Arts Hole Mining Co. and conservation concern .... 

 when i moved out to this little spot of land during the pandemic i had the advantage of knowing it well ( indeed its quite a commuters map scape in my minds eye these days ) . set in an area of outstanding natural beauty , historic and environmental importance, as i wondered around I've managed to cobble together an interesting collection of granted permissions that effectively constitute mineral rights.

 cool, i like shiny rocks and spending a day wandering around in a beautiful place, well thats just the sort of thing that humans have done for thousands of years at least - pre t v - pre phone - pre written word.

 ill retain these little mineral right concessions , just so hopefully i can keep a little voice amid mass landholdings...just a in case someone wants to build a little to much too fast in this pretty little place. 

 MiNING : the purposeful extraction of valuable and or useful materials. 

 so I thought it would be interesting to Pop this out into this little bit of digital ether. now I've had freedom of information request completely disregarded in the past - one instance was a request for the body cam footage from an incident that i was unfortunately assaulted while interrupting an unlawful evictions during the Pandemic.

 I've just been made aware though, of yet another of our difficult to access rights to legal due process. " The Data Subject Access Request for information". i know this isn't your usual means of accessing a complaints procedure but its a visible public forum and so as a real time statement - dated and recorded ...i see no reason why this cant be entertained . I am sure that enough of the councilors that are currently officially avoiding comment - or even speaking to me at all ,- democratic processes eh ! but i am making this as public and uncomfortable for the little table of gossip that has seemingly managed to render rather expensive and distressing inconveniences. and I know that yiu are keeping an eye in my little outbursts as they unfurl - in the vain hope of sidestepping one liability or indeed indicting me for one . so here in this perfectly public forum despite the apparently reduced audience these days ( i wonder if i can implicate facebook for compounding loss of earning ). before I release a barrage of emails for your and third and fourth party considerations. i wonder if you might like to publicly acknowledge this formal. Data Subject Access Request for information. as well as a parallel freedom of information request for the release if any materials that

    plymouth city council 

 Plymouth city centre company 

 Plymouth community connections

    Plymouths access to Housing

    ShekinahMission 

( And the broader and unfortunately named homelessness alliance and affiliates ) 

 oncourse southwest 

 RAOB social club ( plymouth ) 

 Nova Homes 

Re :Start 

Plymouth lettings agency 

( As well as any other half brained subcontract that might well be relevant ) 

 Unfortunately as well as Devon and Cornwall constabulary service - although they themselves are not directly implicated in my considerations I do believe there are corroborations that might be ratified this way  

    i formally request the release of all and any materials concerning my name : my trading name:my company name and or any assigned descriptive designation used in communication concerning the aforementioned since our original point of dispute at Belliver Industrial estate and my affiliations with the occupy protest campaign I look forward to hearing from you and sifting through the notebooks worth of data that I am awaiting to receive 

   A valerio

Ahhh Plymouth ...you funny little backwater

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Good day to you ..... You know that thing I shared over to you about Shekinah having a crack at the film making course ... Well , I've kept my ear to the ground over the passed little while ...and I hate to come off as bitter , but have you noticed that wonderzoo and the mindful art club CIC have both been allocated funding to take on two new interns 🤔 to assist them with promotion and marketing no less I don't know if you have read , or recall any if my thoughts on nudge ( a suspiciously timed , well funded version of what we were doing our in belliver at our little grassroots level ) that just happened to have started by two community connections employees that took voluntary redundancy to copycat what we were doing ...with a keeneye in the potential applicable funding we could have generated ....had we been a little more " co operative " So sorry I didn't get back to you the other day about going for a coffee down there ...the week got away from me in the end and I did have to baulk at the suggestion...it's a Shane because the grass roots and some of the beautiful individuals that are unawares they are simply a strategic ' Camden ' enterprise to desperately try to tie up the failed urban planning island that is the royal William yard and this new millbay ( which I believe has also fallen on it's arse now ) a pathetic attempt to forcefully gentrify a huge swathe of social housing ...right in the doorstep of princess yachts ...a company that this council just lives to kiss ass for ( by the way did you see that princess yachts has decided that Plymouth us not as economically favourable as once thought and are selling up to an American concern 😆 ) I don't know if you recall ...but when me and Jana were squatting the flat above the social club on north hill ....it was about that time that " leadworks " with the assistance of that woman with an MBE that recently died ...secured funding to pay 20,000 per year in ground rent plus the cost of restorations on that building ....which also happened to be in the corridor of burgeoning development ...including Lee Reece's little outfit , nudges many property interests ...union corner ( remember ... I asked you to book me a evening discussion hist spot there once ...in a brief trip back from Amsterdam ...and despite the international nature of the circuitous commute ...fucked me off when I got here 🙄 )...isn't that the same place that that woman and our mutual acquaintance Clare Stevens has a base if influence ...the same Clare Stevens that colluded with Shekinah to dismiss me from both the teachung position and the enrolment in the teacher training qualification , without verbal warning or written warning ......and our old buddy Shekinah with their ' anti homelessness alliance ' So , you know how Shekinah basically fucked you over and then gaslit you along the lines of you being ' temperamental ' and unmanageable 😆 And then basically did the same to me ....well I've taken this last year to wander around and pick up some rocks ....I've enjoyed my time shacked up with a 19 year old protoge ....and I've been reflecting on all of this .... I know that you have taken some flack in this city ...and I have always found our mutual inclination to rail against being coerced into an otherwise avoidable choice ... A very comforting common factor I understand that you might well be fine with it all ...you may well want to just sit it out and play football , to be honest I can find sense in the latter period of Duchamp in my more recent musings and once I'm done with this I think I may well , forget about trying to live quietly and just get in with some painting ....just play chess and walk in the woods instead 🤔 But I've just spent the last few days putting some thoughts together on paper ...compiling a retro spective if you will ....I've sweated through my clothes and my heart has been in my throat the whole time ....but I have completed a well honed testimonial on my position and perspectives as I've dealt with this funny little Burrough on and off over the years ....when you put it all together , it stands to reason as a full psychological attack to attempt to keep kicking the can of culpability down the road whilst maintaining some sort of professional / personal grudge ...ever since we first started making hippy noises on the edge of the city 🤔 I know your own experiences have probably gone on longer than my own ... But , I am taking personal offense to this " build back better .....but only with the people we like " attitude and I am going to make a big stink about it Could I coax you into offering any testimonials if times in the last ten years that you like me ...with too much leniency have let things slide .... Times that you have rolled your eyes and thought ...oh Plymouth you silly little darling , u could have done that cheaper , quicker and rendered a more proficient result 😆😆 Bug live to you man and I hope we can catch up soon xx

The Year of the Rabbit

imagine if you will , the insisted imposition of fees and charges without being first in receipt of either goods or services sound familiar seeing as most of you lot have have seemingly list your marbles it seems only fitting that i should appoint a suitable full time legal representative if my experiences of the interesting set of mental gymnastics that need to be employed in order to consider oneself not utterly complicit in the enslavement of the human race and the eventual doom of everybody ....in order to be a functioning member of this incessant series of stringent impositions without option of recourse, a well behaved member of the herd, for the greater good and all that jeez , hence i officially appoint and insist on making a public record of the fact that from today , in order to suitably combat the constant hostilities of this hostile little brexit britain, that Sir Barnabas of El aherah shall be henceforth conducting my trivial affairs in my stead electric companies , council tax , hmrc , dwp ....all of you , at your current proficiency im afraid i just dont ha

ve the time to waste on your ridiculousness so please in future , unless you have a sensible question , about a sensible matter ....then please direct all questions to the Arts Hole Legal Dept. care of Sir Barnabas

The asshole / tree correlative effect

" can i leave a review on like ...trip advisor for this strange tantric fitness camp you seem to be running " ...." no thank you " ive often commented on the notion that this is a strange time we are living in ...and not un a good way i am openly derisive of many things , and as such can often be mistaken as a little brooding ,even a little pessimistic ...but in truth i do take exception to that common misconception ! its indeed a strange thing to find seemingly gaping fault where many people concieve a ' business as usual ' scenario ...its rather trying to excercise the critical thinking extrapolations from this current muddying pool of self agrandizing gibberish that seems to have become the current currency of the international stage . a whole cast of cheshire cat smiles with their hands in your pocket a stream to your brain and the gaslighting assurance that you arent being mugged and fucked but are in fact being seduced and charged a suitable surcharge for rhe priveledge, and infact everything is working out just fine .... Morons, simpletons and their pet sicophants .... and i do believe it may be directly related to the concentrations and ratios of trees to humans ,you see ...as i wander around i cross many landscapes and the peoples upon them and a universal truth is ...surround yourself with trees and running water, small colloquial groups that are indepently versed in altrnatives beyond the barrage of the contemprary narrative and you will be a lot happier in the day than you will be ... ensconced in any of the trappings of your nonsense dystopian urban habitat surround yourself with too much urban , to much digital , to much people and their peculiar ways , which only serve to paradoxically compound as they dissipate in various arms of Whimsey and esoteric ceremony ...and you will end up as fogged out , perpetually confused and prone to periods of extended mania as they are .... as I have said before ... in an international community this is dangerous ...much more so than say the Salem witch trials ... hold on mo fo's i think we are up for a bumpy ride

Russell Brand and me

I doff my cap to you Sir, when I first started testing the pop up initiative all those years ago , as a means of having a platform to be able to ask people what they thought about the invasion of iraq and ideally sell a couple of pictures whilst doing it .... who would have thought that 15 years down the line , the middle east would still be on fire, we have gone from tony blair to gordon brown to may to cameron to whatever his name is bollock .... bollock johnson is that it ? facebook has become the mainstay for social interactions these days , well maybe i am old fashioned with that assumption , maybe its instagram or tik tok or youtube or whatever the hell the latest en vogue load of rubbish is that want you to sign up and add more and more of your dedicated online tie to the sole use of thier platform , just nonsense !! utter bloody nonsense !! we have had numerous wars, terror attacks, credit crunches, recessions and depressions .... the rise and fall of big brother ( on the t.v ) and maybe real life to - gone from cultural phenomenon to cultural phenomenon ,brexit , international pandemics and now even a possible world war three ... when I first started doing this stuff, way back down there on that isolated little spit of land on the south west coast line ... people just used to think I was strange , and I suppose in sme degree we all are a little strange .... but when we initially occupied iraq and I as a retaliation decided to get toether a few stout mwn and sieze control of a small off shore island and declare it a soverein nation ... people thought me quite odd, " whats this long haired mal content going on about , recessions for? whats all this noise hes makng about iraq ? why does he think there is a problem with holiday homes or chain stores squeezing out local independent ventures ? " think way back then , before social media had taken us all for fools ! and the bbc taking us for even bigger fools sp when little voices started coming out of the youtube ether , Chunky Mark Mcgowan aka the artist taxi driver , jonathon pie and james o brien ... then what was it about 2015 if I recall , old Russell Brand started doing his trews project , and it was fascinating ... I rememebr saying to my wife at the time ,have you seen any of the stuff that Russell Brand is saying lately , and we both remarked that it was extraordinary ! I will admit that the body of work that the man concerned himself with prior to these latest works were by my assessment trivial and frivolous and nothing more , but suddenly the guys was taking in a way that was realatable , and even more remarkable was rather parallell to these idle notions that had already become quite burdensome to me so awesome stuff man , I cannot support your efforts in these recent years as more valuable , of course feeling like a veteran on the cusp of burnout after all these years grinding what I assumed for so long was a solo position .... I am wondering of I should do youtube videos and t shirts too

A mid life crisis in a societal collapse ....

well what can i say , turning 40 years old during a pandemic as the world goes to pieces on the eve of a third world war ....a self apponited set of ' delegates ' earning handsome returns as the majority of the population goes without , its reminiscent of several periods in history that as testanent would dictate havent gone well ...... so, in light of many factors , most of all and above all else i think i am a bit if a hopeless romantic really , i just adore having a female presence around and after around 18 months as single now i figured , give online dating another shot ,you see i find you lady women are to me the finest and most confounding of all the universes mysteries, and as i turn 40 i am of course inclined to reflect back on some of the amazing creatures that i have shared my little journey with so far , and oh my goodness i have been exceptionally lucky ,even more so when I consider how many of them remain in contact and on good terms , of course it seems that can't always be the case ,and in the few cases that there are , it does pain me for the former lovers that preferred to revert to strangers rather than friends , in my mind ... if i have loved you ,then ill always love you ,i don't have a means to extinguish a sense of care for a person for whom i have cared deeply . I just dont understand the concept that you hear a lot these days " i wouldnt piss in my ex if they were in fire " ....who the hell walks around with that much malice in their heart ... well anyway , the point for this little post and accompanying cartoon is because i was recently afforded the opportunity to go out on a date with a girl 20 yeaes younger than me , i knew when we started chatting that this girl had the potential to turn my whole life inside out in a very short order .... i spent a few days practicing the mantra ' you might be having a mid Life crisis ' but hell what sort of fool would turn down such an opportunity .... so we go out and this beautiful nervous little thing is of course the most captivating creature i have seen in a long while , we discuss her reflections about her consideration of ' daddy issues ' and i reflect back on my midlife crisis justification for even considering this as a dynamic .... and we set a second date... now of course this is folly... thankfully the young lady in question saw reason and decided that it wasnt to be ....but i didnt , i wouldnt have not until it was far too late , it's a funny thing despite being familiar with many female companions over the years ...i am still a sucker for that little spark of chaos, far to old and worn out to entertain it these days of course ,but in days gone by, in bustling a bar room dynamic , i recall the chemistry that used to be apparent...you would talk to one girl , maybe dance with another .. all good fun but every now and again , you meet eyes with someone that has that air of mischief , that little spark of chaos , a vibe , an aura ... an energy ....an uspoken language tells you that you are excited about each other ....from across the room , this is something that just cant be emuated online , regarless of how immersive the meta verse would like to pretend to be these days with all the online chat its even stranger and upon reflection with my much younger companion the other evening ....across the twenty years that separated us , we both concluded that it's depressing ..... but there is a broader observation worth making here , several in fact , which I am still reflecting on and may well come back to re address at a later stage

Come to the woods ...

 

Here at the Arts Hole ....I don't believe in board rooms , brunches , bullshit coffee , or the general cacophony that accompanies the urban environment 

All my best ' meetings ' happen with a little wander , a little stop and a little fire amid the setting of somewhere beautiful ....

....oh and no you can't bring your fucking phone 😆

Reflections from the road

 

When I used to sit in the Tiffany gallery on higher market Street in East Looe Cornwall , day in day out ....when I joined the ' team ' , the gallery was already the longest running independent gallery in South West Cornwall , Tom McCracken was the elusive watercolorist whose tenacity and perseverance in keeping the door open nigh on 364 days a year, a former royal doulton painter he and his wife moved down to Cornwall from one of the shire counties up north somewhere , he'd get up every day walk his beloved sheep dogs over the downs through the town and he would sit there and paint and paint and paint . " You can always paint your way out if the shit " he'd say ....and the man was a machine , in the 30 odd years the gallery was going he must hold sold tens of thousands of his little wet in wet watercolours , all depicting local scenes and things he loved .... jeez I don't even know what year it was but it was just at the end of the credit crunch ....just before the recession began , so what 2005 / 2006....give or take 

I don't think smart phones were really a contemporary accessory then 🤔 mad that they have become so interwoven in our lives that I honestly can't recall the point if origin without looking it up 🤔 

But I recall being sat there on a sunny summer's day and we had had a typical morning of ice cream scoffing McDonald's seeking degenerates come in and tell us that ' I could do better than that ' or worse ' they're very nice ...but we have already spent all our money up at the other gallery - that whistlefish gallery ' 

Now the whistle fish really was the bain of an otherwise quite idyllic existence , sitting by the sea painting a few pictures , even amid a recession ....sure not a shoddy way to while away a bit of time , unless of course some property investors suddenly decide to do the same thing just down the road ....just down every road in every town and village in the south west cheap prints in cheap plastic frames that under a perfectly pleasing aesthetic veneer retail by the bucket load and have to date wiped out over half of the little independent studio spaces and pokey little one man galleries that used to be such an interwoven aspect of the culture here and indeed the impression of the place and the lifestyle is what the marketeers kicked out in the mid eighties ....that ironically actually began the  slow gentrification and eventual asphyxiation of these places 

But on one of these mornings ....as such reflections were charging the conversation for the day ....I catch a glimpse of a guy at the shop window trying to get a picture of an image through the glass on his what must have then been a fairly basic camera phone , I shot up from the easel and out the door ' mate , I'm not sat here painting so you can have something to put on your social media ....' he stood his ground and said ' mate I'm just trying to find a signal for my phone ' ....we both looked at each and laughed  

See back then it was bloody hard work ....trying to make a living out of the retailing of luxury items to a largely uncultured demographic amid an international recession .....ha ha ha what am I saying , it hasn't gotten any easier from recession to recession it seems in the past ten years at least 

Now it took a hell of a lot for me to do what I did , I certainly don't regret it but I do find it a point if recurring reflection,  to say no more corporate contracts in fact no more architectural works at all ( unless I am heavily swayed by its ethical intent ) to just try to make a living out of the art ....and although I do produce the odd landscape or portrait or whatever ....the signature style of the original ' product ' has remained integral ,no prints , only original artworks - in fact there are now over 100 separate product lines in the ' catalogue ' and those that do try to follow this stuff will know the sheer scale of variety between say the signature paintings and a figure study in oils , the 101 reasons to choose a vocation in the creative industries and the scientific installations .....and now yes even bloody rocks ! Yep actual rocks for goodness sake 

Now this is where I am going to try to round up my point ...if indeed one can even be reached in this little window of diatribe 

So how do I price my work 😆 ....well when I started out down in Toms and my first little pop up initiatives I'd guage a painting at about a week's wage so around two hundred quid with room to manoeuvre .... That gave me a wage and some materials to do an additional painting 🤔 these days I try to factor an affordability ratio 🤔 now there is an inherent value increase because it's a twenty year body of work that has remained consistent throughout all that time ....

Now I look at the people fleeing war torn countries with personal belongings strapped to their backs and can genuinely relate to this state of imposed emergency transience 🤔 yes I've had to do it myself , and have at times such as this taken all pictures out if frames and rolled them up, grabbed some food and made my way out on foot .....so , for example if a painting was in fact rolled under my arm while I was fleeing a country under fire, then yes it's price has gone up a little 

All but a single painting in a series ....lost at sea , well then yes the price of the stand alone piece has increased incrementally 

I do by all rights consider myself a ' working class ' artisan ....that us I am happy to emulate toms lifestyle and paint for my supper so to speak , to not try to cash in on a single image in the tricky way of mass runs of  prints , but to just live humbly from my trade day to day week to week with no plan of retiring or vacationing from it . 

So these days I reckon a painting is roughly a sofa in cash value ....for most people it's a thing you stick on the wall because it sort of goes with the sofa and the rug , and makes the room feel more homely ....it's cool I can dig it 😆 I've spent enough time in the gallery floor to know 

You want to feel that you have spent enough that you can wrap it in bubble wrap and pop it in the garage , but you don't want to gamble the retirement on something as frivolous and temperamental as the arts .....again I've had this conversation over and over again , I can dig it 😆 

So between me and the customer we've basically hammered out an ' accessible ' price that is able to pique the interest of the ' serious ' collector ,..... about the cost of a sofa 

Now , well like I said now I am fricking mining 😆 and not great big industrial and commercial ventures ... But just ticking around carrying art about I have come across a silver vein here and a copper vein there ,a ridge of palaeozoic creatures or Jurassic coastal deposit

So that sort of means that my catalogue of roughly sofa priced paintings and product lines are now backed with a fucking silver standard 😆😆😆 

So what does that actually mean 🤔 

So Artby Valerio is my actual u.k company name the arts hole is my unofficial brand that us still inherently protected by intellectual property rights 

The paintings and the books I've written are effectively my stock ( you have seen me wince as I describe my diary pages as ' stock ' and my portfolio as a catalogue ) and you - the consumer base get to ' invest ' in something that isn't whistlefish prints - dodgy pharmaceuticals , bent political leanings , the bombing of a distant civilian population , or a very tired and over bloated property market 

.... As I sit here mulling over all the people that have actually supported my ongoing endeavours with fond reflections of friends and even adversaries ,the careful and the careless 

I wonder if as you think back on all the phones you have purchased , all the flights you have taken , .....all the revenue that you have willingly handed over to politicians and estate agents alike ,Netflix , sky ,and the national lottery .....and now as you stuff whatever you've got left after taxes into envelopes and send them asap out to a brand new militant front ..... 

....maybe , just maybe ..... Support the arts and the artists that are doing it , especially those doing it at great risk and great cost to themselves ...or carry in being a bunch of middle class mooks with a sponsorship deal for the end of the frickin world 

Just sayin x

Oh little England ....you sad , sorry little bigger

 

 Alright .....it's Friday morning , again ...in this farce this international comedy club of high paid mortgage interned imbeciles all locked in to the mantras of.... " keep calm and carry on " and " eat ,pray ,love " ...maintains its very expensive yet all the while utterly futile existence of banality ....

.... It's raining hard outside and if you are even remotely aware of your surroundings you can acknowledge ....that it's raining pretty hard inside too 

Sat here considering the last few weeks and how they themselves bled out from the preceding weeks , months and years is a common way for any creative to start the day ,perhaps heightened  especially in the wake of my recent 40th birthday. ( by the way big hugs and many thanks to all of you that sent wellwishings , it was a fun weekend followed by a deliberately drunken Monday night and a birthday morning nursing a hangover the likes of which I haven't seen since my early twenties ) I know I am terrible at coming into these digital platforms of shameless self promotion and reciprocating such sentiments , but I do hope that those of you that truly matter to me will take that with a suitable pinch of salt and know that if our paths actually cross in the physical realm whilst sauntering about in this life ... Then I am more than willing to break a seal on a decanter of whatevers your poison and drink to your very good health ( and this I would rather do than hide in a domestic bubble wrap kicking out platitudes for the sake of it ) 

What was the main point of this little reflection 🤔 

Well there were several underpinning ideas that got me to sit here in front of this God awful screen and try to type out at least one partial facet of what was on my mind , constantly infuriated with having to change if to of and vice versa and this for thus u for I ....so convenient all if this garbage that most of you have come to run your whole lives with 😆 

Well first I was thinking of popping up a little doodle .... I don't do this much anymore ...because I think it serves to feed the internet ether more than it's ever served feeding me ....but we live in weird and scary times and as much as I am absolutely certain that to some small degree my fringe edge ideas and notions just end up being absorbed into the digital crack and largely ignored , until some upper middle class asshole that has had nothing to do but ' internet research ' from a position if relative comfort has rebranded my concept as their own ,pumped a great big Facebook advertising budget and purchased a suitable amount of followers ....can then try to turn something I do as a passing fancy , just by chance ....into some streamlined ' business model ' prone to the privilege of all the relevent funding models as offered by this basket case crack whore of a country 

Jeez where is there a place for the fiercely independent hobby style grassroots cottage industry....are we allowed to just muse over things without having to worry about whether we might be eligible for R&D funding opportunities .... 

Everything is funding driven these days ....and the whole thing stinks as far as Whitehall ....what ever happened to the financially secure consumer base that used to support and maintain through that support ..  the discerning customers financial democracy 🤔 

Well there have been factors of course .... Personally I think there is little validity in an artist's work if they haven't first been exposed to the realities of the subjects in which they concern themselves , so I couldn't paint about pain if I had never experienced it first hand , and not as a single experience .... I would of course have to render an understanding of the complexities and nuances that encompass all facets if that determinable experience , not just catch my hand in a door and assume that I am now versed in the complete complexities of the underlying sensation 

So a painter that likes to walk Fido in a light rain and tries to talk about being ' in touch with their surroundings ' 

Is a bit like a vaccine company that was consistently sued for the cure they offered for limp dick 

Or a political party that campaigned to hang Nelson Mandela is interested in humanitarian rights and not arms sales and estate agents 

Or a media company telling you who to root for be it a sports team a local initiative or the much debated great reset 

A local council suggesting that despite imposing 15 years of ideological austerity on behalf of a gov that is clearly out of control ....that really they stand with their constituents 

It's a farce , it's s sham it's such a level of charlatan clad bullshit that quite honestly I don't know how half of you stand it  .... Suitably compensated for either your apathy your silence or stupidity I guess 🤔

But there you go ..... I suppose I should go and jump on this flight and make use of the week in lieu of being allowed to be at ' work ' today ..... 

My goodness little England ( I can't call you a united kingdom ... You are certainly not a Great Britain ) so little England it is  adiós until I am offered the opportunity to defend the very idea that an image depicting subtle nudity ...in an art room  might not be grounds for disciplinary action !!! My goodness the audacity 😆😆😆 

 

Don't get me wrong , I am all for positive affirmations for setting goals , optimising implementation plans and the good old fashioned pulling up of socks , garnering gumption and trailblazing with tenacity ....so I do get the manifestation process to a degree ...I think that if you are sat in some middle class opulence regurgitating uncomprehending gibberish about karma as the middle East burns for a fourth decade and the fickle idea that Putin or Johnson will get what's coming to them if we just sit and sip tea or soy lattes and bark into the mobile insane asylum that social media has become that everything will work out in the end of whatever ' episode ' formatted concept your reality has been curtailed to ....for precisely this reason

Silver Linings

 

Hmm I just started writing an interesting little post about metal , attached to an article suggesting that the u.k had just sanctioned import from russian refineries ...but then this horrible little toy glitches and both what I had written and the attached content vanished , fuck this digital nonsense , it's all just blunt tools for remedial works ....beggars belief really !

I got a reasonable way into saying that when I first made the public announcement a short while ago that I had in fact stumbled across a few little silver deposits amid my wanderings ....and then about a week later some Canadian shareholders interest calling themselves " the Cornish mining company " made the same announcement from a site down in the south crofty belt in Cornwall , completely by coincidence I'm sure .... of course their share price went up by about a tenner ...

Now I did consider cashing in , floating my humble little hobbyist company and reaping some immediate cash , but let's be frank McDonald's , Amazon , Facebook , Pfizer , .....all if these bullshit companies that are killing the world and suffocating individual liberty are doing it in this model ...so no , I abstained, I'm sure my position on the idea that a passive residual income rendered through commissioned percentages on someone else's labour ....well that's just the middle classes implementing an additional system if taxation in themselves really isn't it ....

I will be completely honest and openly state that I only sought to acquire the necessary mineral rights through permissive allowances and I haven't sought , nor would I the ' right ' to purchase and privatise any of the world's beautiful corners , an aspect if my reasoning was also a conservationist one , I could envisage , that undine mad dash to keep this dead end economy afloat for a little longer that the powers that be could otherwise seek to turn the whole area into an open pit lithium mine and decimate one of the last beautiful little bits of landscape we have left here in Brexit britain 

Any way ,  on Friday just ,it was ascertained that I have enough material within the portfolio by way of artworks and projects , and now suitable access to enough silver to be able to back the artworks in the portfolio with a very basic silver standard , so that's a bit like how those big white Victorian fivers you see were backed by a precious metal ( gold standard ) 

That means that like those old fivers , these paintings are an effective ' currency ' which as I said on Friday runs at a commodity parallel akin to a sofa or a second hand 30 foot yacht .... 

Watch what happens to the price of silver over the next little while in light of international events 🤔 

This is nowhere near as elaborate as the last little written attempt that was attached to the original article , but you get the gist x