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Waiting for inspiration

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Waiting for inspiration The air in a waiting room carries a specific kind of weight, a density that seems to swallow sound. For centuries, artists have tried to capture this heavy, invisible presence. I think of Honoré Daumier , who portrayed the slumped, weary resignation of third-class travellers. He understood that waiting wasn't just sitting; it was an endurance sport. I see that same heavy air, but my era is electrified. The figure on the left isn't just sitting; they are anchored against a storm of data. Their head is buried in their hands, face half-hidden as if they're trying to crawl inside their own mind to escape the silence. The thick, aggressive slashes of orange and gold overhead resemble a visual scream, capturing that internal chaos where your thoughts race at a hundred miles an hour while your body is stuck in a plastic chair. The green glow on their skin adds a cold, modern tension, making the whole scene feel like a pulse vibrating beneath a still surface...

Darwin Jingili Water Gardens Day 2

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I have participated in previous holidays with urgency to experience something that I have not experienced before - a different country, a different city, and different tourist sites. I have a well-developed desire to travel and gain satisfaction through novel experiences. I have accepted that the consumption of difference is the basis of my creativity. However, this holiday is passive and now intentionally regulated by maintaining a pattern of doing the same each day to reflect on the subtlety of difference.  I'm not 'just doing it' for the sake of just doing it, at the same-ish time of day. On the same path through the same location, two days in a row, trying to establish my understanding of action within Jingil Water Garden within itself.   So I am intentionally subjugating myself to perform in a linear succession day after day. In this manner, I bridge myself with yesterday, with today, and with tomorrow. A challenge of repetition to gain a deeper understanding ...

Darwin Jingili Water Gardens Day 1

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COVID-19 2020 has shut down my travels.  So that now I'm on my annual mid-year break I have the time to question my actions. My employment is based on a formal strategy.  High pressure and doing it.  COVID-19 has placed barriers onto my normality. The basis of this blog is questioning the 'just doing it' normality within the confines of COVID-19 restrictions. Understanding my actions within confinement -  'we cannot know things as they are in themselves' (Kant).  On this basis, I have dedicated part of my holiday getting to know myself getting to know Jingili Water Gardens. In short, thinking about my experiences experiencing Jingili Water Gardens.  My initial quandary is that I do not know if this blog is a response of being free to act within restrictions or is it a 'just do it' reaction imposed by confinement.  In other words, is this aesthetic of my own freedom or is it that of an outcome derived by that of an authoritative decision?  If I w...

From One Penny to Utopia

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Sensing cultural empowerment And the euphoric rise of the imperialist spirit All of the romantic adventures And the courageous attacks Surviving those deemed as inferior And observing the tormented  Then returning to refinement and grace And feeling satisfied by the tasting Sublimity Awe-inspiring Stories of journeys into the unknown lands From One Penny to Utopia video One Penny Portal Many don't believe in ghosts Many don't believe they are ghosts But they exist And continue to consume the future Through hatred, anger and destruction   Synthesizing the truth in our minds Purchasing our identity Until all originality is replaced  And the replica successfully re-emerges One-off sponsorship You Tube

JJFBbennett YouTube Music Playlist

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Ned Kelly State Dome

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Lyre Bird Darth and Prowl Ned Kelly Death Mask State Dome Ned Kelly State Dome Venerated and preserved In the house of the proper  Maintaining academic distance Sanitized discordance  New Gods  Man Gods  Ancient Gods Non-conformist solutions to address new problems Confined by experience Confirmed by previous learning Our habits  Our routine Our prison One-off sponsorship You Tube

Francis Transformer Chinatown Melbourne

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Transformer Pontianak Francis Peter Francis starts his journey in Melbourne With deep questions  Deep human questions Traveling in silence and adoration At loss The end keeps returning Suddenly and unexpected Through like-minded people  Reinforced viewpoints Extreme opinions And he couldn't run He was transfixed by technology Not no longer a passive electrical device Their digital eyes  Their artificial intelligence The enterprise grows  Vision as a service One-off sponsorship You Tube

Picture Poems 2020

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Five Eyes and Two Sorcerers Perpetuating wartime structures  Through peacetime violence Maintaining cultures of force An everyday daily life experience Simply acceptable Postcolonial trauma From royal decree to state legitimization The removal of customary values  As basis for social order Continuous socio-economic upheaval To prioritize revenue gain Enforced understanding  Of where each and every one stands All for those at the top Resources Benefits For those at the bottom Lower health status Political disarmament Today’s students Our 21st-century students Their lifetime  Their field of experience Their augmentation Their application of digital technologies They are the ones who will drive our values forward Are our values fit for purpose?  Bamford The Executioner His habits were very intemperate  He obtained money from the Government  He squandered it In the company of the degraded  Of both sexes They looked out for him...