September 2009
1 post
A couple months of Facebook philosophy
In the status update box on Facebook reads “whats on your mind”. So I committed to speaking my mind for the few months I had left before my travel to Asia. These are the posts that came out during that period.
John Raux thinks more monks should be ninjas(or at least know kung fu). contemplative and physical health flourish when pushed to rigorous ends. the great...
July 2009
5 posts
innerstitial wall cavity
waiting
turning corners
flowing ranges that were previously impossible( improbable)
excusable reasons of disorienting relational diaspora.
What kind of world is in me when I numbly do what I mostly am attempting to stand against?
How to change my focus to what I am to stand for
letting the slips slide and the glories climb
that my whole may be sanctified to heal the lives and sight of those...
Processing out loud
Captive ruins
posture filled to the brim with the noise of latent abilities atrophy(occupation of soul)
stillness setting in empty songs of preparatory emancipation(excavation of soul)
igniting the senses
enlightening awareness
(filling of soul)
mysterious beyond drawing out monolith and metaphor with eternal repercussions
(overflow of soul)
Watchgetting lost at the czarbar with the soil and the sun…
who is touring with the always wonderful timbre.
WatchIt started out with a lot of fog… then the vibrations started… first my feet… then my chest… i was frozen in the loudest ambient tidal pool ever… and then the fog started to clear and we could make out the wraithlike cloaks behind the mask of green cloud. in a grand opus between throat singing, the tides of distortion, and the pulsation of my body by an ohm of great...
This is a good time
I cannot say why because I do not know.
Conscious without words.
Moving and glowing present.
Spiraling past
Kinetic force of the future and it’s potential gravitation
Directions curvature
Leaping.
June 2009
6 posts
the theology of espresso
ego slain empty cup
filled by the brewed crushed fruit of the soil
with a nurtured froth swirling the image of the makers eddy.
take.
drink.
Watcha lull at the record bar last night…. with a touch of pinball and etch-a-sketch magic as well.
jots
the simplest joy of seeing new vastness surrounding valleys from vistas.
the speed of innocent intuition seeing emptiness as space in contrast to the present experience.
the shear wealth of care even though haphazard and clumsy at times, holding the heart as precious and with a grip on flesh keeping the free spirit from flying off a cliff or landing upsidedown on the ground.
a priceless gamble...
calm before the storm
all my art is up. a few final details and voila.
then the swell of first fridays will rise… fall into the night… i will get up and speak the next day and then man the other gallery during the fashion show maddness. then i will take my rest.
May 2009
1 post
Magic Mondays
Thankyou to all who came to the opening on First Friday and made it a wonderful evening!
I will be down at the gallery most afternoons… (wed-sat) give me some heads up if you are planning on coming down and ill make sure to be there. 8168766013.
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
9 posts
Northwestern exposure
My first week in Portland and Seattle has been wonderful. Naco’s naan tacos! Biker and hiker cultures are so refreshing…. Not to mention I’m getting tons of exercise exploring the town. Going to hike tomorrow and then see banana get hitched! Yeehaw.
the least that i can do
listening to the toes ive stepped on makes me want to stop dancing.
critiqued by my lonely road.
the direction of the current should not be the sole judge of destination…
and fighting the current should not be the sole reason for choosing a direction.
the love of mountains shows its greatest contrast in deep valleys.
against my “better” judgement, its in the desert where...
a fast update.
my etsy is pretty much down… minus a few pieces. I will however be putting up a new store in the coming months…along with a website that actually presents my artwork and endeavors. speaking of…. Im officially planning a trip to Nepal in July! My hope is to get a scholarly visa and to study the intersection of culture and spirituality in the art and food of the indigenous mountain...
Last and not least found sound from the trail.
LNFcast! from the past.
more Lost trail whisperings.
found.
mysterious trail recordings from the PCT.
February 2009
5 posts
what separates us is less important than what...
we are this moment.
these moments.
and the memories we make, we keep.
we are these memories.
The virtues of falling down
Knowing what is possible is more than heeding good advice. Is more than thinking twice.
Somewhere inbetween sensing and better sense lies the risk of innocense exploring ignorance.
Feeling human fragility while earning resiliance.
Gratious for risky strides not overturned.
Mindful of obstacles from past lessons learned.
Growing to be more me.
You more you.
Sensing the calling of self off...
January 2009
2 posts
December 2008
5 posts
Visions of galactic disproportions
A power line of crows debates human conscience while gridlock hits and the skyless travelers groan in their slowly moving cry for purpose and then a crash moment hits as the rubberneckers stretch their blind swollen gaze to the smash of a lovers cellular quarrel turned upsidedown suv bearing unconscience the man and the system surrounding.
idol hands
preying on forgiving(thanksgiving)
expensive trash talking cheap
pentacle(obstacle)
goal making belief(relief)
sacrifice needs for desires
come apart mental eyes
feeling science forgets quality
whats the matter (warp)
space for moving (time)
(parenthetical)contexts(change)
(absolutes)nuance
Ripple skin of tidal life
Joy that shapes wisdoms song
Roots that labor springs
Preparation(anticipation)building
Keeping watch(up)
No trouble(bother)
It’s my pleasure(treasure)
Walls are but a background(drop)
To what we are making(sharing) together
Following(hints)melody
Repititous rhythem(relax)
Glimpse(presence)
Humming in secret
Laughing(at my curiosity)
Internaltry
combat(me)
(hospitality)
{with)draw
ringing(close)
calling(bluffs)
mis(placed)intention
(honest)retention
flood(plain)
emotions(erratic)
arousing(numb)
explosion(decision)
remission(commission)
expressing (art)
fully realized
(incrementally)
November 2008
13 posts
The crowded lull
Waiting ache of wonder lost (lust)
Straightened face forcasting whether (sleep or forgotten slumber)
Exercising thighs (minds)
Mummified heart In a jar (in a car)
Suspending animation (recessitating gravitation)
the irritable testament to damage control
I
preventing medicine
(healing surprise)
healthy fears (diversely) (diversity)
reproduce wildly
(what they’ve been told)
you don’t (listen)
protection option (opinion)
prospecting failure
(consequence collision)
slips reasons mind
(defensive suspicion)
II
living (altering) decisions
anxiousless home (heart)
powerless member
subliminal love
unconditional (remember)
spatially flexible
structured
(like a rhythm)
with its invitation
(open)
boundry is the movement
with its inhibitions
(broken)
predictably irrational
standing still doesnt stop time
speed increases life and death
grasping quantities releases qualities
yet much has already been given to be held(to behold)(to be heard)
what matter in life does not continue on its coarse?
horizons of collective contextual energies
bursting with the sum of determination and its flaws.
Evolition
automatic relationship
voluntary mechanism
spiritual disipline
rational emotion.
figuring out of control
winding down to earth
run away with words
turn around to remember.
caffeiNation
stressed pressurized lives
fearing rest and time lost
already behind the curve of efficiency
imagining sustain in gain
struggling to keep up with what is needed
had enough without having
(selah)
separating hearing from the heard
snapto superposition of all possibilities(matrices)
work through compositional lost abilities(proprieties)
(sensitivities) visio devina posturing practice
(relativities) remembering what is already known
the guide of symbols ringing out a new map
with socio-cultural demand forgetting the heart of clockwork
(internal monologues keeping their distance for harmonys sake)
dealing(scribe)
interwoven hand with land
scape(scope)
obligating moral conspiricy
theory(cope)
resensitizing passivist
activity(hope)
love without condition
tradition(our living metaphor)
transcending notions preconception
create, subsist, manifest(restore)
no ledge
why is it assumed that when yin and yang mix it isnt colorful
the search for right balance generally creates a grey blob
relational gestalts reveal our flaws through others that hold those traits as strengths
the optical illusion is that i am the center and need to be fulfilled
provision speaks to needs holistically where i demand specifically
reality turns out to be difficult
especially...
stories and patterns
troubles twirl(build)
out of control seems uncommon
(supposed to be at least)
i am peculiar(alone)
we are strangers(not normal)
civilization teaches there are no needs except for status and power
(yet i long to love and be loved, know and be known)
and then the time when we are truly thirsty catches us off guard
where want crosses the threshold of need
wilderness is mean
God is unjust
...
vote with change. buy art.
My webstore is up. I will be adding new art all this week and the next. Here I go.
cell phone down.
if you need to get a hold of me use facebook, email, or im for the time being.
October 2008
5 posts
update update!
I’ve been all over the place,as usual… but this time in the planning of the next steps for my life and art and community. I am opening a webstore later this week on etsy.com selling small affordable original artwork. Going to try to make a living..haha. At the same time I’ve started on the redesign of johnraux.com and hope to launch somewhere in the middle of January.(hint:...
WatchThis is my friend Bobby’s documentation of the painting i sold being pulled through a third story window. fun times.