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Rex Young

@rexistential.joy

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Glass barely bends before it cracks…
Kaleidoscopic artist, writer, dancer and facilitator
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Im learning to accept and even embrace the way life changes around me and within me. It doesn’t stop even when you desperately wish for something to stay the same. It can be so hard to let go of the things that have become so comfortable and familiar. But growth is necessary, and rupture happens… How will you respond when the seasons invariably change once again? Along the way there will be poison ivy and flat tires and broken bones and thunderstorms. But these things change too. Discomfort may become relief. The old stagnation may wash away in a rejuvenating deluge. and if you find yourself in a moment of awareness… when this fleeting existence seems to lay flat before you and you are wrapped in a sense of pleasure or gratitude or grief or discomfort. Hold on to it- gently. For that feeling will fade. And that moment will pass. and each one should be cherished as though it may be our last. I love so much nowadays. I truly feel at home here in this wonderful city with my beautiful friends. A year ago I began to reawaken and expand into this amazing community that has the capacity for so much. Im filled with gratitude and I’m bursting with hope and confidence in what we can do here- together! Keep dancing and playing and laughing and singing and sharing and resisting and conniving and planning and plotting. The future belongs to us all…and I believe it’s time for a change ☀️🌳💗 HAPPY SUMMER!! by @rexistential.joy
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4 months ago
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in those chilly mornings the frost keeps creeping back the last vestiges of winter reminding me that the spring of my hope doesn’t always arrive so soon or so completely but these sunny afternoons! the weather swings like the sun pendulum in the sky I’m back working in the garage and I feel hot outside for the first time in months what a pleasure to shed some layers amidst the sweaty labors of love the first leaves come bursting out of their buds those crawling races all around us everything sings and gasps and smells like renewal like maybe you were right to trust the warm front ushers in days of rain april showers and I try to be glad for change you can’t stop the rain from falling let it wash over you let it fill your sadness let it soak into the earth let it become fuel for the coming changes there’s so much to be done and the compost is going well by @rexistential.joy
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6 months ago
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It’s hard to believe that the past couple months haven’t even been winter proper… I’ve been slowing down -although it’s taking me a long time to come to rest everything feels steely, silvery blue and icey or orange, fuzzy, heavy and warm I’ve been doing so much lately… the past 4 months have been filled with so many amazing, beautiful, challenging, confusing and inspiring things and i’m learning how to embrace it all. It’s been a load on my shoulders and heart but i’m getting so much stronger and i’m coming to be grateful for the pain of hip-openers, sore muscles, chilled air and inconvenience. while i continue to quest for a kaleidoscopic, immaculate flow, i find myself on an off kilter spiral back to the chaos in my own wake. Im trusting the process and relying on breath. ribbons of green keep my heart pumping. My intentions for the winter: prepare the conditions, preclude the expectations… wait in patient discomfort Is This It? I’d be more than ok with that by @rexistential.joy
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10 months ago
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October came and went like all things in life this fleeting existence made beautiful by our decisions presences and absences you can only fit so much in between the front and back covers of a book seasons change people come and go songs begin and end I dance through it all the purple in my hair fades but these smiles, embraces and memories I will take with me and cherish forever. by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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This September…. Oh, how I’ll always remember This September…. many many moods and outfits this past month i’m learning to love myself as much as i love my friends and cleveland and fall 💗 change is the only law. by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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The other day I woke up and was unable to return to slumber something within me rising, seeking escape set out set out barefoot and wrapped in ritual black adorned pacing rough concrete and icey dew my feet remembered pain I set out in the old way in a familiar place on a new day I walked a fervent meander forward to a place in mind quick, hard, hurting steps stubborn against dawn the baffling, banal, beautiful company of strangers ruining my brooding I recognized my woes like the shape of my finger and footprints my own particular creases and lines that define me no choice but to bask in the warm light of a new day and document change the darkness recedes kicking and screaming into shadow mirroring light 🌄 by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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I’m not exactly sure how to feel transitioning into this beautiful september of ritual and reflection. This summer I was in 5 art shows (including 1 I made happen!) I connected with the creative community in cleveland in a way I never thought possible. In a way im still coming to appreciate, rely on and pour support into. August was brought in by a gust of wind heralding a hurricane virgo season I experienced the greatest triumph as well as the deepest grief of my life this past week of my 26th birthday. Just as I thought I understood a thing or two about this disco pendulum dance party of a life, the string snapped and I found my constellating ways brought crashing back down to earth. I’m learning to be my own tether to this moment as I look into the terrifying, beautiful, hypnotic and fractalescent beyond. I’m learning to see the stars within myself, not just the ones above. As i’m pulled back into the reminiscing past and forward into the hopeful future, I pull apart time itself and sit in the uncomfortable present that lies just through the veil. I mourn for what could have been, I’m grateful for what was and I try to find peace with what is. It’s everything and nothing. It’s the feeling that our relationships and love are infinite and the knowledge that they will end. that one day it will all—we will all end. Still the wind blows. Still Elliot must be fed and still i must persist through this kaleidoscope haze with wide open heart and daydream gaze. I still get carried away and trip forwards and upwards with a summersault landing. When I trip too hard I still rely on those whom I love to help pick me back up. Some are the same people i’ve loved for years and years. Some are new and rejuvenating and expansive. Some are no longer here. Thank you to everyone in my life who has hugged me, lent their hands, hearts and wisdom to me. Thank you for caring so deeply and receiving me in good faith when I do the same. I’ve learned that I’m a capable, enthusiastic, smart, kind, funny and sexy person. And that this person still has so much to give. Here’s to another joyously desperate, inevitably frantic, spiraling trip around the sun. 💫 by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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Suddenly… August! ☀️🦁🌿 Please come see my show at cain park August 29th! (it’s also my birthday 😁) Everything seems possible in my cleveland community 💗 by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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sculptures, natures, friends and foods by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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SPRING IS HERE! and with the sun I’ve been making and working and planting and growing and singing and dancing and cooking and living! come make art in my workshop :) by @rexistential.joy
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a year ago
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Some recent things that make me smile :) by @rexistential.joy
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2 years ago
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Learning to settle into graduate summer… grateful for my friends and family and partner and kitty and new home by @rexistential.joy
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2 years ago
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