#marcher arrant

[marcherarrant]

Hey all! I am desperate to sell some art! I am living in Portugal without papers and things are rough! These pieces are 80 dollars each but I am definitely willing to negotiate, so dm me if you want to. You can get the pieces at my shop at marcherarrant.bigcartel.com . Thank you so much even just for reading this!!! Below is a description of the pieces and what the project is all about, and there is more description in my shop.

The first week I moved to Portugal I got caught painting. No big deal, I've been caught in France and Spain and things are way chiller here than the states. It was, though , one more problem on top a million others. My hope was to change when I came here to be with my girlfriend. But week one I was drunk on whisky and Benzos and getting caught painting.

I've overcome many roadblocks since being here and have many more to go. My my art is as much about what I do the art on, such as the maps I use, as it is about the art itself. To me the police papers represent roadblocks, and doing art on them represents overcoming those roadblocks.

I use some new symbols in these pieces which are dear to me and hopefully others too once you learn about them. Everything about my art is tied into books I love and which inspire me to keep on. The Helmet of Mambrino is Don Quixote's helmet. It is a washbasen he thought was a sacred Relic hahaha. He inspires me so much. A major roadblock for me as I get older is to continue to spend my whole life walking and painting. It's so ridiculous to continue this unprofitable life hahaha, it's crazy really, and scary truly. But Don Quixote followed his crazy unprofitable dreams and to me he is a hero and that is why I use that symbol.

The numbers 34 and 23. Chapter 23 from Moby Dick is a one page chapter, you can read it online for free. My favorite book chapter ever. Bulkington represents what Hubert Dreyfus (His Moby Dick lectures on YouTube are Phenomenal!) calls heroic nihilism. My greatest roadblock has been finding meaning. I lose Faith's like others lose loose change hahaha. My path, my art, is about finding ways to keep on despite no meaning, that's what 23, Bulkington, means to me. 34 means March (3rd month) 4(th). And it is The count of Monte Christo's prisoner number. After the worst betrayal and despair he kept on.

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Fluke 20: The Big Mud is the confluence of many tributaries such as Mike Watt, Subhumans, Marcher Arrant, Stinkweeds Records, Robert and Karoline Collins, Jessica Mills, Jessie Lynn McMains, Matt Limo and more!

Read about exploring the catacombs below the streets of Paris, a cab ride gone bad in Mongolia, pinball machines on fire in Seattle, dirty hippies chugging their own piss in Albuquerque, a Replacements mixtape on a road trip to Brooklyn and Mike Watt learning punk rock up in Hollywood. Oh but there's more in The Big Mud, you just gotta hop in the boat and enjoy the adventure with us!

64 pgs, full color, offset print, $4.99. BUY HERE: Fluke 20: The Big Mud

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small town, big vibes

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Who is Marcher Arrant and why did he walk all over Pittsburgh?

It’s nearly impossible to walk through Pittsburgh without spotting one of Marcher Arrant’s stickers. There’s one on The Andy Warhol Bridge a

Sometimes it's too easy to lose track of individuals when we're attempting to take care of our own issues. Finding this article about @marcherarrant after recently rediscovering one of his stickers I'd slapped in an abandoned factory north of Pittsburgh a few years back put a needed smile on my face. We're all connected, somehow. Best of luck my friend.

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Spotted at C/St Miquel (BCN) @marcherarrant

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Currently transcribing this. Here, a small (bad quality) excerpt of my little interview with  @marcherarrant. This is one of my favourite parts; I even walked today because of it, though following the sea and not railroad tracks. 

“10 or 11 hours into it, I see the skyline of Denver, through the trees [...] it was fucking beautiful”. 

music, booze and walking

[marcherarrant]

Day 3 baby!!! Its going so perfect!!! The homie @bones.2.pick is the best road dog! He hikes fast though, damn! But we abide by hyoh protocol so we meet up later if he feels like going fast. We are at our first hostel (@atchostel )and it's perfect! Such good vibes and the people here are passionate about what they do. Highly recommend this place! Meals are included and laundry and it's just super nice and clean and people are super chill and friendly! All the hikers I've met on the trail have been super cool too! Everything is just going so good! I knew I would be in good walking shape because I am always walking, always, so I knew my legs and feet would be 100. But before the trip I never trained walking with my kit so I thought I might be outta shape in terms of having a bag on. Everyone tells me my bag is big and heavy but it feels so lite to me and has not been hard to carry at all and I'm thinking wow what a great surprise that it's not an issue at all. Then I had an aha moment hahaha. Although I did not train with the kit for the trail I realized that everyday I was walking before the trail I was carrying a huge camping bag full of paint with two big bottles of water and food hahaha. That thing has to weigh at least 50 pounds hahahaha, and I was walking with it like 5 hours a day down the tracks hahaha, so I was unknowingly training for the trail and not even thinking about it hahaha. On another note, when we were staying at our first shelter at Springer Mountain I heard a helicopter and gun shots at night. I figured the gun shots were a hunter. But then I heard a machine gun!!! It sounded like a war was going on!!! I asked the homie the next morning if he heard it all and he didnt! I thought I had just hallucinated it all hahaha. The next day we found a sign saying they were doing military training in the area and that we might see people in camouflage and to 'not engage' hahaha. Then we came across a military truck hahaha. I still had not put two and two together from what I had heard the night before hahaha. Then we met some Appalachian trail volunteers who told us about the military and that we might here machine guns hahaha.

[marcherarrant]

Bottles for donations for my Appalachian Trail walk which I set out for on March 1st! I'm starting the trip out with a new friend and I'm super stoked about that! I always have a bit of anxiety starting off on a big walk. Starting off with someone will be a big comfort and is also a new experience for me. For the bottles I just ask for a minimum of shipping cost which is 15 dollars in the USA and 30 dollars everywhere else. Any extra will be greatly appreciated and much needed but please dont be bashful if you are broke, I want everyone to be able to afford my art. DM me if interested. Thank you so much!!!