Art, Central Bank Debt Control and Money Versus Nature

The art world and artists have in the main not addressed one of the most important issues of our time – central banks foisting debt on the people and nations of the world and thereby controlling them.

An artist who has the knowledge and courage to look at and address the world of money, the dangers of monetary policies today and currency debasement on a scale that the world has never seen before is an Irish artist called Conor Walton.

The Dream of the Central Banker (Click painting to enlarge)

In the words of Conor himself:

“This picture (see above) refers to some of the larger monetary disorders of our time.

That economists occasionally come up with naïve images to represent their ideas has been a boon to cartoonists in the financial papers, and ‘helicopter money’ is surely among the best of them.

I think it’s about time the subject received the fine-art treatment.

This picture celebrates some of the madness of our times, with its ‘heroic’ central bankers and their delusions of control.

It is part of a series of paintings loosely titled ‘Asymmetrical Warfare’.

The Joker Wins Again (Click painting to enlarge)

This phrase sums up my entire career, but it has particular relevance to this current series of works because they deal explicitly with cultural conflict, with the crises of our times – political, ecological, financial, cultural and moral – and the warped perspectives that ensue.

These paintings represent a cultural battlefield. For me, they are a way of waging a small-scale war against modernity.

About twenty years ago, in my late twenties, I came to the conclusion that I really didn’t understand how the world worked: so much of what was going on made very little sense to me, particularly in the spheres of markets and finance.

So I went ‘back to school’ and tried to fill in the gaps in my understanding and overhaul my world-view. I emerged from that overhaul a ‘Doomer’.

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