Court Painter Won an 2021 Juno Award : Artist Of The Moment just for showing up! And show up he did!

“The road we travel is equal in importance to the destination we seek. There are no shortcuts. When it comes to truth and reconciliation we are forced to go the distance.”

Senator Murray Sinclair’s words expressed during his 2009-2015 tenure as Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

CLICK LINK FOR Senator Sinclair VIDEO

Senator Sinclair delivers statement on discovery at Kamloops residential school

• https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1903872579996/

Agnotology

Excerpted From Wikipedia

Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. More generally, the term also highlights the condition where more knowledge of a subject leaves one more uncertain than before.

Active causes of culturally-induced ignorance can include the influence of the media, corporations and governmental agencies, through secrecy and suppression of information document destruction, and selective memory. Another example is climate denial , whereoil companies paid teams of scientists to downplay the effects of climate change. Passive causes include structural information bubbles , including those created by segregation along racial and class lines, that create differential access to information.

Agnotology also focuses on how and why diverse forms of knowledge do not “come to be,” or are ignored or delayed. For example, knowledge about plate tectonics was censored and delayed for at least a decade because some evidence remained classified military information related to undersea warfare.

Agnotology 2.0

Edited

Agnotology has always been present, but it is transforming. Now, the goal is no longer to create ignorance, because there is little to no preoccupation in public media with determining the validity of knowledge.

Under agnotology 2.0, truth becomes a moot point. It is the sensation that counts. Public & social media leaders and influencers create an impact with whichever arguments they can muster based in whatever fictional data they can create.

Still MIA : missing in action

Against the backdrop of legal wrangling, there is one question on the lips of everyone in the art world: Where are the self portraits “Court Painter Mundi”? 

Press Attache to Court Painter, A Hardon MacKay doubts recent reports that they are on Prince bin Salman’s yacht, as was alleged in 2019,” The $450million question:Where is Court Painter’s ‘Court Painter Mundi?”

“To put paintings like this on a yacht, with the sea air, the evaporation plus non stop party time wine & nacho spillage would be utterly stupid. I cannot believe the buyer would put these paintings in a setting like that,” AHM said.”they are on a wood chip board, which can warp in no time,” he said, referring to the composite panel on which the artworks were painted.

Court Painter chimed in and speculated that “it might be that we see them all together one day in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Who knows? I can only hope! “

Meanwhile, AHM thinks they could be in a palace in Saudi Arabia, ready to be unveiled — perhaps before the end of this year — as part of the kingdom’s drive to brand itself as a hub for arts and culture. “The important thing about the art market is that behind the most beautiful objects often lie the ugliest of motives,” he said. “‘Court Painter Mundi’ means ‘Court Painter of the World.’ And in a way, these paintings are now so much part of the media world. Meanwhile, with the legal wrangling between the paintings former owners resurfacing once more, this valuable masterpieces and others once in the same collection, continue to test many a reputation.

(Be assured Court Painter’s reputation remains intact)

The 5 CEOs of the 5 biggest Canadian banks celebrate 2021 first quarter profits

The COVID 19 pandemic is gold to the banks…profits up…time to increase fees!

BILLION: The Canadian meaning of a billion is a thousand million, or one followed by nine noughts (1,000,000,000)

Court Painter in action!

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles.

Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content.

Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory.

Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate.

Source:The Battle Is For The Customer Interface:2015 article, Tom Goodwin writes:

Court Painter has no paintings that reflect the state of platform capitalism.He just thought everyone should be reminded that the Court Painter Studio still runs on an antiquated system that assures the studio will remain a non profit digital age enterprise.

The images have been pulled from the archive to provide eye candy for a weary world.

AUGUST 6,22 UPDATE: FROM Previous Court Painter POST of MAY 19,21.

Excerpted from 15 Jun 2022 Al Jazeera article

80% of Gaza children suffer depression after 15 years of blockade

800,000 children in Gaza have only ever known life under blockade, affecting their mental health, says report.

Gaza City – Four out of five children in the Gaza Strip suffer from depression, sadness and fear caused by fifteen years of the Israeli blockade on the territory, “Trapped” a report published by Save the Children has found.

The report interviewed 488 children and 168 parents and caregivers in the Gaza Strip, following up on similar research that was conducted by the organisation in 2018.

The following is from the previous Court Painter post of May 19 2021.

There are one million children living in Gaza

Demographic statistics from Gaza show what medics, aid workers ,journalists and the Israeli government have long been aware of. That Gaza has an overwhelmingly young population, in fact so young that the majority of its population may well now be children.

In 2016, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated children constituted 49.6 of the population of the Gaza Strip, with slightly less across the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a whole. The median age being 17 years old . If we consider that Gaza has a population growth rate of 3% a year, among the highest in the world, very shortly if not already over 50% of Gaza’s population will be under 18-years-old.

Accurate statistic gathering in Gaza is understandably a difficult endeavour.

Excerpted/edited from April 17,2019 Red Pepper article :Gaza is a children’s prison There are one million children living in Gaza, trapped and under fire. By Omar Aziz

It is now May 19,2021….check out the news!

BBC NEWS: Of the 219 people who have been killed in Gaza, at least 63 are children, according to its health ministry. Of the 10 people killed in Israel, two children are among the dead, the country’s medical service says.

Artist concept of project on exterior of Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Artist concept of project on exterior of Tel Aviv Museum of Art

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia

Formally, there is a direct chain of command from the Queen of Canada to the governor general, through the Chief of the Defence Staff to all of the officers who hold the Queen’s Commission, and through them, to all members of the Canadian Forces.

Seems it may take the Queen of Canada to take command & clean up this ongoing mess!

May 14-Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin under military investigation, is no longer leading vaccine campaign

May 14-Military replaces another top officer in wake of sexual misconduct allegations. Vice-Admiral Hayden Edmundson removed from post as head of HR during ongoing military police investigation