By Jon John

• I believe that the action of love remains one of the few accessible ecstatic rituals in our disposable society.
• My invocations of love are not static. The rituals and aesthetics of my childhood experiences continue to transform through research and personal connection.
• My ritual is communal alchemy. I don’t perform for audiences but rather engaged witnesses that become co-creators. My lovers.
• From my veins flow Basque, Argentinean and Gypo. “Gypo” is a derogatory term I own for Gitano, which is the Spanish-Roma ethnicity.
• The complexity of my ethnicities gave dimensionality to my religious upbringing. We are a catholic family that practices magic. My people gave me the gifts of healing bodies and conjuring spirits.
• My queerness is not in a typical narrative of exclusion, but rather a celebration of my otherness.
• It is not a longing of something missing, but a quest with an open heart.
• Through altered state of consciousness I transcend my spoken vocabulary, to share my hidden secrets of love, life, and loss.
• I utilize video, photography, installation, and most notably performance.
• Flesh, skin, and blood are my palette to take you on a journey from tenderness to brutality via beauty and decay.