Ha Ha

Bless my soul

A self-deprecating joke

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When pressed for living

My skin is my barrier

By John Bennett 

JJFBbennett

In 1983 I moved from Melbourne 

with my love Brenda

to Poowong

To start my painting career

In 2019 I traveled to Seoul

with my love Brenda

And viewed Asger Jorn

artist as a social activist

This book is a collusion of

What

Memory

considered Reflection

My paintings 

were

determined to

have something

to say

An Ambitious Artist Abstract

This story is about growth. By growth I mean, the tenacity to survive in a delicate and highly fragile ecology. 

My underlying artistic dilemma is rooted in the normal and abnormal consequences that impound affordance and manifests self-actualization. 

An artistic response to the perceived narrative and the clues that impact on augmenting a self-sealing consciousness. 

The generated artifacts represent growth gained through spontaneous thinking and physical action set under the conditioning forces of consequence and realization.

An Ambitious Artist Problem

Well, I have a problem and the problem is deep

So I dug and dig and dug and dig and dug and dig

Yes, it is my problem and it is sublime

So I dug and dig and dug and dig and dug and dig

I have no means of making it home

So I dug and dig and dug and dig and dug and dig

With no way of making it out of this mess

So I dug and dig and dug and dig and dug and dig

An Ambitious Artist Explanation

Dominion and powerless

Strength under control

I re-positioned

I observed

I acted

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Human Mammal Self Actualization

Unexpected interference
Self-actualization

A wish in time

Investing in negative sentiment

Self-sealing

Theory

Evidence

Belief

Invested in negative sentiment

Fabric and Structure

Pressed on for living

I have the need to know

Fleeting and impulsive distrust

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Ambitious Artist RAW

Ambitious Artist Raw
no reason
no logic
just physical and emotional

just barely holding on

my paintings were determined to have something to say

Portrait of an ambitious artist

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Self-portrait

Over time I have changed
Through multiple starting points and many opportunities, I evolved

How did authority get inside of my head?
A mind forged by manacles

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Leper Line 25th Parallel

It was so primitive

From the 1860s to 1950s

They were seemingly untreatable

They were feared 

There was panic

Colonies within a colony

A prison for the sick

Of appalling living conditions

Enforcing social isolation

GRIM and SHAME

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1981 An Ambitious Artist

1981 An Ambitious Artist

Back in ‘81 

When 

Times were fun 

As a fine artist 

With ambition in mind 

I thought of life

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LSL 60

At the age of 60, I thought life would be much easier to understand

In the '80s, I was painting art inspired by Fauvist, Cobra and Art Brut artists

I wanted my art to be raw, powerful and primitive

I was investigating our psychological and physical barriers as they failed to protect

I wanted to paint self entrapment where sickness and resistance hid any possibility of outwardly demonstrating wellness. 

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