 Boom welcome back to the 21 convention 2021 day 3 15-year anniversary at 21 summit in Orlando, Florida Our first speaker of the day and our next speaker for the event is actually Luke Hanks cousin You might know him from Mortal Kombat. It's pretty awesome, dude He's also a 2020 artist of the year and for real the man is here's greatest artist He's actually personally introduced and recommended to me by dr. Sean Smith You guys saw speak on the first day of the event He's a good man great man and a great artist and he's bringing back Masculinity to art in the art world. He's had he has an incredible story what he's been through personally Coming out of the closet as a pro masculinity artist. You can only imagine what that's like in the art world today And any without further ado, please let me welcome your next fighter Arthur Kwan Lee Welcome Good morning so the subject of this presentation is on the social landscape and I'll be expounding upon how the normalization of decadence and the irreverent climate we live in has greatly brought down our collective aesthetic standards This presentation will crystallize what your common sense knows about the radical left, but from the vantage point of a classically trained fine artist One of my goals here will be to dismantle the pretentious elitism associated with the art industry today And I'll show you that while the pen is mightier than the sword The brush or the instrument is mightier than the pen any any medium by the way You can replace painting to understand this context So I want you to first pardon the ego centricity a little bit. I'm gonna share my story Because it's your story In my own paintings. I'm most known for resurfacing masculinity Religious iconography and traditional sentiments with a modern lens Most notably is when I went artists of the year in 2020 by the Eileen S. Kaminsky found me foundation I've shown my work in Milan Tokyo Japan where I mean really everywhere. It doesn't really matter Here's a taste of my work. This is a heroic rendition of a chili's Notice the saturated color palette that oh, yeah I'm so sorry Yeah, notice the Color palette it pays this oblique tribute to fovism. This is a slavic interpretation of a phoenix The gestural mark making Annunciates the intensity of my compositions that I'm going for So within three slides you can see my paintings are a conversation between the past and the present Where the ancients are placated in front of you with the new painting materiality available today This was a scene when Beowulf was entering the cavern towards the archetypal devouring mother and this is the painting in its entirety So my central claim here will be that masterpieces are produced by masculinity And I'm more often undergirded by religious subject matter And that the truest sense of what a fine artist has been art historically speaking is that of a spiritual servant? I like to read your quote by Joseph Campbell now Myths are so intimately bound to culture time and place That unless the symbols the metaphors are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts The life just slips away from them You know, there's a reason why Campbell repeated the adage of mother nature and father culture, right? There's patterns here and as we lose our pedagogical understandings we deteriorate that social cohesion This is why Dr. Jordan Peterson is so venerated today because he's doing what Campbell did in this 20th century and Every man here has to take a symbolic role publicly for novelty to continue its evolution So when you look at the ancients across all civilizations, they regard truth the reason Good and beauty as the fundamental building blocks of their society Notice beauty is up there and the truest sense of beauty is the sacred and As our culture becomes more antithetical and polarized, you know, I just reminded that we've all been here before Right every empire falls from the inside out Where the men become spoiled from the fruits of their fathers and that same toxicity ventriculates onto the society's creative class and the artist transitions from the Preserver of truth to the spreader of vanity When masculinity is not yielded properly in the arts, it is shoved underground to fester and All we have to do is look at the most popular form of creative expression in young people today And I don't know why not all people talk about this as a case study because it's a it's a phenomena, which is hip-hop You know if an overcompensation of masculinity ever had a name, it would be gangster rap You know the unconscious attraction when you look at hip-hop as a phenomenon is a freedom to be hyper masculine You know the the gold chains being surrounded by lascivious women. You're pretending to be this musical warlord essentially and I look I there's a place for it when I'm exercising from intoxicated It there's a place for it all but we have to acknowledge it for what it is So my journey as a fine artist. I had this obsession Excavating the symbolic. I believe we've we've lost touch with paying tribute to our shared consciousness And that's the seeds of this counterculture that You know, many are referring as this masculine enlightenment over here. They're planted in the wisdom of the ancients That is to say the canonical and pedagogical sentiments like the answers to the ideological subversions Consistently controlled by their mainstream media academia in Hollywood This painting here is titled agony and ecstasy. We have two central figures in this composition here First we have the guardian food dogs one has a ball under its paws symbolizing yin the other has a cup under its Paws symbolizing yang These statues are traditionally given by elders to the children when they purchase their homes and are starting families so the pedagogically given and the sentiment is to defend the family Cohesion from the Mongols. So it's a very wonderful gesture interesting side note is a Celestial figures in Eastern mythology that are on the side of good Manifest very darkly often because the integration of the shadow is very evident in their mythology But these these ghoulish figurines. They love human beings. They're their primary roles to protect children actually and on the other hand We have the Madonna This is the pieta from Michelangelo, of course You know when the very feisty Dona Torpomante was given the task of demolishing the chapel of Santa Pichonella The first thing he did was remove the pieta due to the symbolic weight that it carried so The stubborn and inflexible man allowed thousands of years of art to be put into the rubble, but not the pieta and There's something significant in that I'll give you a modern parallel in World War two When we're trying to give a statement to Japan who is on the list for us to drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Nagasaki and Kyoto Kyoto has all that beautiful Japanese architecture all that transcendent beauty in the history and philosophy associated with it and All the wise men they set up and said we will win by any means necessary But we cannot distort Kyoto. We need to remove it off the list because it's one thing to get to the other side But if you get to the other side and we lose our sense of beauty We lose our sense of humanity and we need to understand that especially today with the direction of our climate Notice the Virgin Mary here looks Very youthful for our 33 real Jesus on her lap. It implies that a woman's value is deeply connected to her purity So what happens if I put both of these figures onto one composition? It represents this universal archetype that any society that does not defend and preserve the archetype of the mother and child inevitably falls into hell. I Think that this painting resonates with the 21 convention deeply. I see a lot of pick-up artists in a manosphere and You know, I think they're blindsided by a certain degree of hypocrisy and I understand there's 15 years of baggage But if we're going to allow the manosphere to evolve we need to ameliorate this You know in their private lives they vote conservatively But in their but in their public lives they show off this body count and you cannot speak of social cohesion on one hand now the other hand You know, leave your brothers and sisters astray. It's a logical fallacy Now we need to address this if we're gonna allow the manosphere to evolve You're welcome Oops, you know, it's funny when I talked to the the new atheists that dismiss religious models as if Materialism has the tools to decipher the mystical, you know, I see this Island here with exhausted resources and the ferry boat that gets us to the other side is Greek reason Judeo-Christian values and masculine romanticism and The radicals are hacking down this method of transportation. They're exhibiting a lack of gratitude in any perspective whatsoever but Fortunately for us when he studied the Christian apologetics in the 1800s They talked about how the only thing more beautiful Even to the everyday man then the opposite sex is your religious experience and Anyone who has had those linguistic connections or have had a mystical experience or had have a tasteful psychedelic experience knows what I'm talking about This is what one of my more popular paintings today is titled apex we have central warriors and Authorities and conquerors around the world the author of the art of war Sun Tzu This is an unknown samurai, but the preserved condition implies he's very high ranking William Wallace on the left Julius Caesar at the bottom Genghis Khan, of course Kimu Shin god of naval warfare in East in the East Surrounding these Authorities are apex predators We had the brown bear above Wallace the soaring hawk the killer whale at the bottom and this explosive red Siberian tiger That's in your face I'm sharing my paintings with you guys because the same source that I create from exists within every man in this room And I get great excitement awakening that latent fire You know the when I said that masculinity is what produces masterpieces I mean specifically your capacity to endure suffering Interpreter analyze it and publicly share it with your artistic means Your risk-taking your leadership qualities. These are all alpha male traits. You can channel to take novelty to a higher place I'm gonna show you some quickly now This colossal youth sliced in half is a very fitting representation of the times. It's another popular painting of mine. Tell the rebirth often regard Moses Christ and Buddha is the three greatest alpha males of our history. It's one thing to lean towards their physical gifts you know, it's another thing to Val you know validate your status by getting attraction from a lot of ladies But it's another thing to go within and integrate your shadow or sin that takes real go nuts This painting was acquired by the special forces Foundation Organization dedicated to supporting Greenberry veterans the vast majority of my collectors are military veterans with an entrepreneurial spirit I'm honored to Give some light to the brave men and women of this country so ten years of consistent effort in the gallery scene Exploring philosophical subject matter Traveling museums across the world for inspiration and training under some of the most respected masters in the industry did me very well So I'm 20 in that photo Typically at that stage artists are competing to get into group shows and to get rejected at like a 10 to 1 ratio But I never had that problem because the nerve I was hitting You know, I knew very early on I wanted to play in the major leagues And I found myself getting big and small solo exhibitions regularly and As word got around some of the players in New York City started to collect me and I started to enter their social events as well And I'll be clear here. I Really kept to myself the entire time even amongst these people and the closer I became to these elitist ship of fools The more the true colors revealed on to me though, you know, I was in full transparency guys I was in social camouflage Notting as a yes, man in free of losing my financial security Realizing I'm losing something former sacred in turn you know the degree of wokeness and social justice and Necdotizing the art industry can't be repeated enough. I've had like I've had a art director who wanted to have an initial meeting with me at a Black Lives Matter rally I've had Dozens of critics suggested I depict more female or lgbtq figures implying need to write about my practice further, but nonetheless I Found myself awarded artists of the year internationally and This is Berlin Mexico City. You name it all the top art cities. I got a lot of attention for this But in that that exact same week one of six galleries. I was consigned with in New York City Told me to take a white supremacy survey Because they wanted a more inclusive roster of artists and and her logic was To recognize my unconscious male bias Towards systemic forces. I may be unaware of I was I was a Labeled adjacent white upon his completion. So you'll know You know, we all understand severely what the radical left is doing right Marxism in different Christmas packages BLM Feminism would have you but if you work in the arts and entertainment The where the gatekeepers literally demand the bending of the ideological knee. It's a very different thing So I found myself at this crossroads here Do I? Continue to participate in this circle jerk logic or do you challenge the sophist? Who by the way are paying my bills? Right, and I you know, I thought a lot about this as to why so many good men do not speak up and stand up for what's right And I'm starting to realize it's heavily circumstantial Because as many we're all here on the journey to improve and we don't need everyone to like us We can toughen our leather. That's that's fine, but it's one thing to be hated It's another thing to be hated and poor And if they look at your two kids and they say why I can castigate your source of income You're gonna listen to them And that's that's actually the circumstantial reality as to why people are not speaking up I've thought about this a lot because we can we can Annie up, but if they can if they can make you jeopardize People you're taking care of it's a whole different story This is this is why I became an artist right? to preserve This is my father here, how can I look into his eyes? senior pastor military veteran rooftop Korean president of the council of Korean churches You know from the perspective of the gallery of empire and today that is a nexus of cultural Marxism atheism Unconscious determinism go about your whims and You know as the Bible says only greater pain a man faces than losing a loved one is abdicating his more responsibility Because art like morality consists of drawing the line somewhere So at this point of the story, I was just poking the hornet's nest, you know, I shared my disdain for CRT feminist Miss Andrew Shared my conservative predilections that was all there and I kept this professional Cushion so I can keep working with these art dealers at a safe distance and One of the interns in the Lower East side said that Arthur was selling your work. So at the end of the day, you're still salvageable right salvageable Until I started speaking up for the 45th president This is where things are rocky for me I went to this dinner party with the purpose of schmoozing and the curator says You know, we have all these black lives matter artists and we want to do a show with you group show to commemorate the stop Asian hate movement and She expected me to be giddy because of these slanted eyes and She said what do you think about? How do you feel? I said, I think it's very odd that blacks assaulting Asians based on race is white supremacy and There's three things you should never Disparage in this industry, right? First is the LGBTQ, you know, they're the most privileged people today, right? second is BLM and last are the feminizes So she thought she could checkmate me. Well, what do you think about black lives matter? You know the sacred cow and I Said it. I remember how weird this was because I you know, I made this commitment to be real So I remember how strange this moment was I said, I think black lives matter is a modern black face We're a bunch of white liberals go on the streets using the black identity to push your liberal agenda Like, how do you think that relationship went moving forward? right Some of you will call it bridge burning Some of you will say like that's that's bridge burning author. You shouldn't do that, right? But um, I Made this commitment to just let go and let God And I've had dozens of these interactions with many of the dealers I worked with and One plus one is two. This is a microcosm of what occurs with Kanye West Regina Carano. This is what happens if anyone is a masculine conservative and wants to use your artistic medium where there's comedy Fashion Painting what have you if you're yielding your medium towards the logos and want to preserve tradition They will castigate your income You know and in full transparency being placated with these people has put me in a transition phase You know Lower East Side, Soho, New York. They want nothing to do with me New York City Antifa is regulated and then harass me and All these articles that previously venerated and praised me have all been taken down so I'm completely independent now and Let me encourage anyone here that's creative Fuck the record labels fuck the galleries and fuck the managers Right, you became an artist because you love the medium You you love the artistic medium and if you can be canceled you have to live under the shadow You cannot truly be free with your pursuit But with that said There's so many young people who want to use their artistic means for the good who are just lining up towards the Leviathan They're all going in to be influenced and poisoned So what are we gonna do about this? You know, but like like I said All the answers are in the ancients So if we're gonna go forward We want to first look back again so I'm gonna show you guys six works of art produced when The arbiters were masculine the gatekeepers And I mean specifically the Medici family military generals and wealthy patriarchs and Then I'm gonna show you guys six works of art in today's intersectional landscape And we're gonna play the quiet game here because the picture is worth a thousand words I want you to exercise the art in a very conscious looking Notice your process of articulation the architecture your your standards just Experience the art enter post-modernism You read that You get the idea preposterous and trivial. How do you go from the divulging of the logos? encapsulation of the sublime We're in addition of some of our deepest archetypal realities as food for the soul To a banana duct tape to a wall Selling for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in our battle 2019 well It's because as the Russians say Fish rods from the head down and I'm not gonna even get into the money laundering component or the demonic artists venerated by the political elite It's a much larger cultural issue that we the people even acknowledge this garbage as anything but insulting to our intelligence Another way to say this is politics is down to culture and This sentiment has also been echoed by Michael Savage Dennis Prager and I hate to say it but the majority of I don't want to just say conservatives but Anyone who acknowledges and protects Freedom of speech the right to bear arms in the family. They just repeat this as an empty mantra and are not active participants Let me reiterate that my conservative and traditional values Are nested on aesthetic and sentimental reasons first and you you have to be able to justify it to the same extent as policy implementation on welfare taxation abortion, what have you Like you should be a conservative because you don't want your daughter to have a septum piercing a blue hair and be 300 pounds Right, you know that at a gut level, but when it comes to the conversation We go into this echo chamber or we just stack red pill data and just throw it into each other And we know it's not effective. I hate to be the bearer bad news, but it's not gonna get the job done we need to be a part of the culture because Romanticism is nested in traditionality in the first place And more often the praise aesthetics of the time will give you hindsight of things to come Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Yes, there are cultural and biological differences differences of taste But beauty at an instinctual level is defined as identifiable boundaries refined to the nth degree Look at a bodybuilder. Look at a beautiful sports car or marble sculpture and there's relativity in there. I understand but The refinement the commitment to that That's something that needs to be harnessed The the degeneration of beauty comes from one thing actually and What has been pushed down our throats since the baby boomers took charge? Political correctness Political correctness is not just a tool to shut right-wingers up Political correctness is ultimately the propounder of relativism and relativism is not having the Conscientiousness to distinguish the pita the pita from the levitated mass To give some further context the levitated mass is regarded as our generation's pita 10 million of taxpayer dollars to be acquired by LACMA relativism central claim is that objective standards and expectations belong in the trash and I'm telling you guys right now We're gonna break this down. There are institutional roots as to why this is So if you looked at the 1800s all our education was like atelier based art training. It was like any other trade school, right? You want to be a mechanic? You know you want to Learn plumbing. What do you do? You go to somebody who knows the skill and you your apprentice under them But the advent of art universities are a completely different creature and it's nested in the Frankfurt school So 1983 John W. Murphy of the Frankfurt school publishes art and the social world through the studies in Soviet thought a study into Marxist Aesthetics and its intellectual heritage Our end the social world is what all the art critics and theorists that are in the universities today used as a foundation It's all nested on this is built upon this foundation According to Murphy the role of art should transcend Representing conditions of beauty and truth towards a practice of what is deemed as socially beneficial And official art should serve as a political arm rather than a religious one You fast forward to the top five art universities today. They're all being taught by radical post-modern ideologues on the left The first person to catch wind of this was American cultural critic Tom Wolf So this story is pretty interesting because mr. Wolf was a lover of art of art history in New York City When the art world was going to his renaissance He walked into this gallery in Soho and saw all these blank canvases Usually an artist produces a series Takes maybe two to three years the curators and critics come to the studio We determine what works fits most cohesively based on the theme. We'll work out a statement. It's this that's usually the go-to template But he saw all these campuses. So he got excited. He walked and he goes to this Front desk girl wearing her all black Ponytail pretty enough where you want to talk to her but she definitely studied a liberal arts degree So she has a little snarl in you that little that dissonance was there that typical image He walks in and says look at this artist here, but all this work up. He's already getting ready for the series He's planning it this ahead of time. Who's this artist? Who's a what is he producing and she looks and says no, this is your art show? This is the art show. These are White canvases with white paint on top of it. It's very bold and daring and He's confused, you know because art is supposed to have cultural value She looks at him. Oh, you haven't read Greenberg. You haven't read Clement Greenberg. This is your problem. He goes, oh, okay So he gets a book by Greenberg. He goes up to his loft He finishes his book. He comes back down and totally trolls her. Oh It's the purity of the painting materiality that makes it transcendent. It's pure art. The purity of it is what makes it And so why are you able to charge it at this rate and In his bewilderment she believes him. She goes now you get it Now you understand the art world. This is what you know, we're we're doing a new fold here, right? So Wolf's primary claim here in the painting word was that the American art movements from 1945 to 1975 Was a religion of the educated classes if you want to understand one of the great weapons of the radical left Look at the art gallery. They're doing a lot of underground self there and this is where a lot of them meet Absurge expressionism pop art and minimalism were just different denominations of the modern gallery attempting to replace the church The heretics in today's far now world are those who expose that the emperor has no clothes on in other words that Don't excuse me those who see the culture for what it is mere Philism backed by second-generation liberal guilt of the upper class This is an important thing like today those who supported Wolf's claims were insulted as fascist Bigots and racist by the students of Rosenberg, Steinberg and Greenberg Sounds pretty familiar, right? Well, I agree with mr. Wolf and his fantastical literary style of writing I don't think he went deep enough though, and I don't blame him because no one could have predicted How did the you know the decadence would proliferate with social media and technology? The logical conclusion of this never-ending Avangar reframing of high art is elitism. Yes So by nature those who will consolidate in this industry are those in the anti-american elite agreed But who did the culture Berg associate themselves with? Who are the intellectuals who are the academics who supported these art gallery gatekeepers? Radical Marxist who spoke of feminist Miss Andrew against the patriarchy Before we look at the numbers here. I want to make one thing very clear though We're not blaming or attacking women because there's so many powerful female artists That's not the point you're missing the point if you think that's the case. It's the absence of masculinity. That is the problem We need this balance, you know, I can't tell you how many masterpieces and amazing work of art there are From men exercising their romantic instincts selectively. There's amazing tremendous beauty that's You know generated just from that source But it's important to understand that When masculinity leaves a window aesthetic standards will plummet You know, I showed that photo earlier with my girl and I with the Trump hat There's layers of an onion to this It's not Trump per se Right, you peel that and that's conservatism. You peel that it's traditionality. You peel that again It's masculinity. You peel that again It's standards We're the ones who can uphold those standards because we're the ones conscientious of boundaries We have that territorial system and that applies psychologically as well and that also applies to the artistry So let me prove to you that there's no men in the art world today women earn 70 percent of bachelor fine art degrees and 75 percent of master of fine art degrees from leftist universities in the United States This is from the National Museum of Woman Artists In 2016 the globally recognized art website artsy did a study of 33 thousand artists and found that woman in the arts did not experience the motherhood penalty In their careers 22 conventions gonna love this In other words woman in the arts consciously choose to avoid bearing children and becoming mothers Freeing up all the time to have that vehemence towards masculinity in 2018 art museum staff demographics showed a vast majority of woman employees and by 2021 the same woman are running all the museums Feminist art coalition national association of woman artists woman-made gallery woman art guild gorilla girls the feminist art project There are hundreds of art collectives dedicated to supporting this Anti-masculine frame in literature art you name it I saw one of your faces when I said that when masculinity leaves a window aesthetic sounders plumbing this is something I believe in and You're probably thinking how can you make such a claim? That's too much of a wide thing to say Well, we don't even need to look at the art We can look at the woman themselves So we're gonna look at Students who went to liberal art school or studied art education All right, and check that some of you are gonna want to chuckle but uh That's fine, but there's a serious tone to this as well, you know, what if this was my sister, you know What if this is your daughter God forbid? Probably wouldn't be your wife because you wouldn't want to deal with that, but um Let's have a look here. Oops. You forgot this one, but you know, I don't even blame them Because this is what they're reading the Cosmopolitan used to be a housewife magazine and You know the whole trope that The men use acrylic and a royal the woman use watercolor The ladies would paint in watercolor and they'd submit it to Cosmopolitan and then the best one was getting the cover It was a beautiful sentiment. Now you have this sphere Total chick the other lover what everyone I call it, right? This is what has happened. This is the this is the decadence I'm talking about and speaking of Reading You should judge a book by its cover the overall sentiment that I'm trying to relate to you guys here is that We need to put a handle on our optics Every time I see someone on the right and the left have a conversation the right Gets the spreadsheet in the pie charts stacks up this again red pill driven data and 90% of the time they just talk to each other, right? What does the left do? They don't even bother with that and they're effective They have absolute ownership of big tech academia the gallery Hollywood entertainment. Those are all spheres of influence So they're getting all the young people the influencing everyone who is not so nested in with the data We're gonna do an exercise here and I'm gonna prove to you right now right here with the social experiment I'll prove my point Anyone who can recite to me the 150 second line in the Constitution raise your hand Okay Now I want you guys if you can to finish the lyrics of this melody Okay, it seems today that all we see is violence in movies and That's culture that's culture Culture data we need we need these red pill driven men here. We need them. We need to store guys here Because then if they want to argue with us on a table, we got that But if we don't participate in the arts actively, we're doomed. We're doomed Okay, I want to end this little tastefully. So I'm gonna Quote one of my heroes here sir Roger Scruton rest in peace When art becomes merely shock value our sense of humanity is slowly degraded The culture of the civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines this vision of the world So let me show you guys some hope because there are artists who are trying to fight for what's right. They're trying to Preserve our tradition. This is Edward nippers. He depicts biblical stories with all the new Modern painting techniques with so much movement and breath. It's a beautiful thing Lee Hongbo he paints with classical standards with paper and he draws you in by Bending reality you can unfold them Alex Gray in the Cosm community I don't like how left-leaning he is but at least he's making spiritually-oriented art. So it's that's halfway there And he's done, you know, regardless of bringing art back to the sacred. He's contributed quite a bit Eric army sick biblical realism You know, if you look it's important to say while I'm on the subject the greatest artists are Christian for a reason This is I mean there's this is not just It's not a coincidence You know art that points to a transcendent morality That's the good stuff right there James Jean Resurfacing aesthetics from the East with modernity Mr. Tung Han more classical sculpting. I Could have shown you hundreds of artists that I know and if I didn't show some of my good friends. I'm sorry I have too many to pick from Bottom line here is that when femininity is is left in the arts in the aesthetics You get aesthetic relativity when mass humanity comes into the picture. It introduces universal standards or hierarchy And that is the distance that we need to ameliorate Men have to participate in the arts Let me give you more specifics So my professor always suggests to people who do not have any art experience who wants to just get their feet wet Take your family take your kids and learn the ceramic wheel make the bowls and plates That you literally break bread and eat together It's a hell of a familial glue and it's very affordable and you get a taste of the aesthetic experience That's one option. I've heard him say this many times If you're in a blue state, you got a lot of galleries Go in check it out and challenge the status quo if you see this vague me as to make Horse manure it might be horse manure if you see this stuff Ask somebody that works there. What is the cultural value of this? And maybe there is maybe there is a context that you don't know who knows don't go in with hate But you must be willing to challenge the status quo because these elitists they will talk they will talk down to you and You know you have to dismiss all that because people's wisdom is only as deep as their experience and these people just have vanity and narcissism and narcotics really Join the Genesis Council. I started this art collective For all the artists who want to take the culture back, you know, we have our classes. We have yoga We have a writer's circle. We have a book club We have all these different learning resources where we can consult and support each other. There's nothing like this So look we have to return to tradition Restore the sacred and make some art You know, I probably should have started with this But what is the functionality of art in the first place? Let's go to base reality. What is the purpose and function of art? The point of art is to fortify the values you believe and are fighting for You purchase some art you collect something you put it up on your home that energy and aura permeates to your whole family in your home the investment is insurmountable and I think a problem with people on the right side of the aisle is they look at every investment based on an ROI How many digits does this add to my bank account? don't you want to have your hands on the wheel of actual culture and I leave you with one saying This is a sentiment that I have echoed upon in my whole practice inside the studio that tradition my friends It's not the worshiping of ashes, but the preservation of fire Thank you guys