Jon Vaughn is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, independent publisher, and experimental musician/DJ. Do we change or stay the same? Do we act out of autonomy or react out of complacency? Do we never look again into the eyes of a stranger or do we hold that gaze and fall in love? Do we live happily ever after or do we parish in the flames of our own spark? Did I really break the pattern or was it just another dream of freedom, a dream my ancestors have had for a thousand years before me? In the eye of the storm we reach out for the warm embrace of the other in a courageous act of unknowing, risking everything for a chance to be free from what we can not escape." Jon Vaughn The deafening echo can break our very grasp of reality. In that moment we decide to act, and our decisions haunt us like a slow motion spring reverb. In that moment a thousand possibilities exist, and the disturbance warps our perception of space and time itself. Kim whispers about bumping into a stranger on the train, a chance encounter that sends ripples of change like video feedback through what she believes is predestined. Triggers will send them spiralling into it’s endless maze, unable to ground themselves or discern their own voices. Empaths experience their own and other peoples trauma as if they are bound by its charge, attached to a cluster of them. Constantly reliving trauma beneath the surface becomes like a subterranean trance expressed through hypergraphia. ![]() ![]() Referencing Kim Gordon’s lyrics in “Shadow of a Doubt” by Sonic Youth in 1985, I see a connection with the tragic character in the song to the challenges in my own artistic practice. ![]() "Must’ve Been a Dream, From 1000 Years Ago speaks to the deception of never knowing whether one has broken a pattern in their work or continually reproducing it.
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