Black Ivory 5.7.26

• Edgeworth calls me up on What’s App, and we begin the podcast.
• Edgeworth and Emma ask about the Rose and the Amateurs Nature Center gig last week. He tells them they played 23 covers, but it was more like 20.
• Awkward time at an official ceremony. People standing still, watching us.
• Ron has been painting because the weather is bad.
• Emma is forced indoors to paint because of the forecast, which is often wrong.
• Edgeworth doesn’t go to Camden because of the forecast which is often wrong.
• But he’s working when not in Camden.
• Ron and Edgeworth are retired.
• Emma had her exhibition at Mill Hill but unfortunately didn’t sell anything. Good turnout though, maybe 300 people. 40 - 50% sold. Just not Emma’s pieces. Badge of honor!
• Emma’s friend paints turtles and she sold a couple.
• Edgeworth points out that people have no taste. Emma has work worth looking at.
• Flower pictures sell. It’s just how it is.
• These exhibitions are cliquey, says Emma. Ron agrees.
• Edgeworth talks about all levels of the art world being rotten with nepotism.
• Edgeworth presents his flowchart putting Free Art Frees Art at the top. It’s like a family tree. How to make all these projects that we’re doing make sense and put them all into one context.
• Black Ivory and Advertism, for instance, are under the umbrella of Free Art Frees Art.
• Money has been replaced. The art world is being replaced. Free Art Revolution.
• Nebulaic!
• Ron makes point that Edgeworth is already making a name for Free Art.
• Must make the ideology work in the real world. It must be self-sustaining.
• An artist can make money around Free Art Free Art.
• Kuwait drilled sideways!
• Emma attended a Tracey Emin exhibition and showed a couple postcards of her paintings.
• Emin had a miscarriage and didn’t paint for 5 years.
• Ron decries celebrity artists. Every time she paints a picture she makes a hundred grand.
• Ron says it’s his turn to be a celebrity.
• Emma shows her print she’ll hand out in Camden with Edgeworth on Saturday.
• Edgeworth exhibits his Steemit, Blurt and Ecency art made with LPs.
• Edgeworth exhibits his LP art for Kozmic Records in Camden. Watch for the Studious album, Farangers, Elbow Sisters and 2 Out of 3 Rule promotions.
• Ron asks about the Camden booklet. Edgworth recently had 3000 printed.
• Emma asks about outdoor sketching. Ron lies and says he’ll be doing it too. But Ron doesn’t like plein airing.
• Edgeworth goes through the booklet.
• He uses GIMP to prepress.
• Black Ivory Lets Anarchists Create Kash In Violation of Rogue Yesmen
• Emma counts poorly
• Elections in England!
• April 5 is end of tax year in England.
• Edgeworth is a Sole Trader.
• Tax law in U.S. does not support new business.
• WPA during the Depression. Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Philip Guston. And Ron was wrong about Hopper. He didn’t take any funding. He was a conservative Republican who hated the New Deal and thought Roosevelt was trying to become a dictator.
• Edgeworth is eager to talk about Johnstone Chats
• One second of quality content in 59 minutes
• The UK vote
• Emma Green, Edgeworth Reform, and the Donald Trump button
• Your Party is Your Party and a confusing name.
• And then more politics, you’ll have to listen…
• More politics and power’s universal hold on hypocrisy and corruption…
• A missed opportunity for Anarchy For Art
• More politics that culminate with Ron requesting a Britsh invasion of the U.S.
• The Second Half of Johnstone Chats arrives
• Painting at Camden
• People won’t let us be the opposite of successful
• We wind down for another week