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Slumpu 2024. Stuckist Edgeworth Johnstone is a genius of abstraction. His Jompiy series are brilliant—that is, new, original, beautiful, thought-provoking, and revolutionary. Stuckism might hate it, but

Got my book published, Making Friends With Wild Dogs: Reflections on Stuckism for its 25th Anniversary. The definitive opinion on Stuckism:) Signed copies available through me domestic shipping, unless

I Appropriated the Kyoto Dragon Because My Culture Has Been Vanquished by Propaganda 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20"

Normalizing Atrocity for the Tribe 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20" Ordinary people commit atrocities without awareness or care. I imagine families joyfully celebrating Christmas 1943 in Ollendorf

Superficial Relationships in Empire 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20" I’m workin’ it. Painting in the morning, proofreading my book in the afternoon. A busy summer. I will pop and fertilize the

Devolved Revelers of the Uniparty 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Still proofreading and editing my upcoming book. Another book waits to be written—Poor Ronnie’s Anti-Ethnic Cleansing Almanac.

Actually, Freedom is Free 2020. Acrylic on American Flag, 32 x 19" For those Americans interested in nation-states and the theft of our liberties, may I escort you this morning to the Declaration

Sick Animals Not Killing Each Other For Power 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Just a Quick Reminder, Little Kids Getting Mutilated in Gaza 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Read everything

Americans Cannot Spell, Pronounce, or Imagine Севастополь 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Busy week painting and watching the U.S. Empire collapse. A 34 trillion dollar debt, homelessness officially

Ennui Design 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" I spent an hour or two in the late afternoon making a painting to while away a dull sunny day. Happily, I finished and went outside into the light

The Propaganda is Making Us Anxious and Half Human and Afraid 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Notice the signatures on these paintings. They’re names of friends and acquaintances with one screwy

Mitochondrial Orgy Seconds After U.S. Gets Us All Nuked 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Last year I scoffed at the venerable Krishnamurti who once declared that the world problem is not the

I Want Out of This Painting ASAP 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16" I spent the better part of the weekend cleaning my studio and came upon these portraits of a married couple who do not wish to be

Cover layout by Rose Throop An essay from my book on New York Times Worstsellerever list, Cookbook for the Poor: Truth=Poverty Stated in terms of practical, everyday life, wabi is to be satisfied with

Acrobat on Way to Circus After U.S. Gets Us All Nuked 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" This week in the United States of Idiots, the House of (non)Representatives voted to automatically register

I Set Out to Make a Painting as Rotten and Ugly as a Nuclear Submarine in the Mediterranean, and Couldn't Come Close 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21" I don’t know how to write fiction, besides little

PhD Social at Boeing Inc. and Single Cloud 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" It’s a gig economy. You can do better for earthlings—birds, fish, trees and animals like yourselves... You don’t need

Birds, Mammals and Fish of the Everglades Acrylic on wood, 48 x 24" Some good news and bad news for my art no-career/career. I donated this piece for a silent auction fundraiser on Friday night at

Making Friends With Wild Dogs 2024. Oil on paper by Edgeworth Johnstone Making Friends With Wild Dogs is roughly complete. Next come several proofreads and typesetting into InDesign®. Rose will design

Somewhere in Italy Again After the Americans 2024. Acrylic on cardboard, 16 x 16" Lacking canvas, gesso and good paper in the studio. Had to resort to pizza boxes all week. I prepped one with house