I often feel
I must present myself as a human being to them
as any hostage might




the pulse of the  movement disorder is it's own internal guidance system and  internal  field frequency  ,the Dystonia in fact is the only thing I think that has kept me sane and separate

case 2301.
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April 25 2013

***** is still reticent, still fighting his mentor and himself,his INTENTS and ENROTIC TENDANCIES reveal themselves in his caustic relationship with his mentor and the fact that he is trying to "write " away from the Program  .His daily log of private sessions less and less veiled as fiction show how sneaky his neurals are ,as he is aware that we are not able to stop his postings in "real time" and often are thrown off by time delay..he insinuates his writing is an SOS towards agency or  asking ,begging for either attention, publication or some type of intervention from more traditional agencies. He enjoys what he calls his "apps"but now taunts EVAN with interfaced visuals of monkey's with their skulls removed and other horrendous imagery which he realizes go directly into his mentor's hippocampus and visual cortex.
He also brings up certain inevitable  errors  made a decade ago ,things such as  preliminaries and systematics he was told never to dwell upon involving "the machinery", the technology which he is reminded ,"is a gift
DISTRACTIVE ENTERPRISES


,over preening or other interference such as reading he knows both  confuse and anger his mentors ,we have got him to stop listening to music..but he refuses to watch TV without breaking interface with a cigarette break , as much as he brings up the in initial errors concerning the initial "launch" he purposely plays with his controllers minds by humming jingles and other self created BUFFERS...He writes that he is expendable ,he assumes there is what he telepathizes a "Goon Squad" that will do something to him if he cannot "get with the program"and interface in a non purient,respectful manner.He visualizes horrific scenarios for himself if he does not "try harder" yet continues to behave in a rather "expendable " manner

Originally Published: 2/20/2008
ART REVIEW: For Jim Bloom, honesty is best policy
The Allentown native’s works, on display in the Outsider Folk Art Gallery, have a fearless candor mixed with an innate understanding of material relationships.
By Ron Schira Reading Eagle Correspondent
Reading, PA -      -  Jim Bloom's "Where You Gonna Run to When Your Gig is Up" is on view in the Outsider Folk Art Gallery in the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts through Feb. 29. Honesty. We look for it from a car dealer or an insurance agent, in advertising and from employers, but what about art ists? Pablo Picasso said that art is a lie that leads to the truth. If that is so, then all art is a lie and all artists are liars. Do you believe that, or do you believe that some art ists actually tell it like it is, warts and all, with artworks that can be so truthful that it may be painful to make them or hurtful to even look at them? Oddly enough, it is the work of such an artist whom we find more intriguing and memorable in the long run. The artwork is so profoundly direct, even to the point of bluntness, that it cannot be ignored. Such an artist is Jim Bloom, whose work is on display in the Outsider Folk Art Gallery in the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts through Feb. 29. Bloom was born in Allentown in 1968 and is considered an Outsider Artist, one who is mostly self-taught and is by choice disconnected from the cultural mainstream. Many Outsiders are iconoclasts, creative rebels who produce outside of academia for personal reasons. Others have been known to be handicapped by any number of health or mental problems, and occasionally are unemployable or difficult to work with. Yet they persistently continue to make art, as if driven by an unseen force. Bloom’s paintings, mostly ac ry lic, are worked and reworked to an obsessive level. He makes a painting and then becomes dissatisfied with it, changes it, and even much later, if he doesn’t like what he sees, he will change it again. He works with inexpensive discarded materials, such as cardboard and newspaper tap ed together. Though some of his benefactors have supplied him with expensive canvases, he prefers his “cheap” materials for the feeling of fragility and temporality that they portray. The artist unfortunately had a rough childhood, and his materials reflect that. It was not the rough childhood of an inner-city youth or one marked by physical abuse, but one of an overly sensitive boy growing up in a dysfunctional middle-class family. Bloom spent a short stint at Temple University’s Tyler Sch ool of Art, but college life didn’t appeal to him and he left to study writing. Some years passed and his writing career didn’t take off. He found himself with a drug problem, sought help and was prescribed anti-psychotic medication for emotional problems. Shortly thereafter he was injured in a severe automobile accident and while recovering was diagnosed with the movement disorder dystonia* and prescribed more medication. It was at this point that he dedicated his efforts toward art. He painted numerous works, delving into his personal repertoire of experiences with his family, society and sexuality. *the pulse of the  movement disorder is it's own internal guidance system and  internal  field frequency  ,the Dystonia in fact is the only thing I think that has kept me sane and separate