Observances are gestures sustained over time.

Thresholds, marks, forms of attention. They begin with the act of noticing: a surface, a weight, a distance, a trace left behind. Through repetition, restraint or the addition of a mark or symbol, ordinary forms can become charged with another kind of presence.

Objects can create conditions for presence.

A familiar form may be altered, emptied of its expected use, marked or reduced until another quality appears. What remains is not without function, but open to one. The work often begins there: in the space between recognition and uncertainty. An object may suggest use without defining it, hold a gesture without explaining it, or simply alter the way a body occupies a space. Nothing is prescribed. Not a function, not a ritual, not a single reading. The object remains available to encounter, to time, and to the meanings that gather around it.

The archive is an extension of the same attention.

Objects, garments, images, drawings, texts, symbols and found fragments are kept in proximity. Some remain untouched for years. Others return in another material, another scale, another context. The archive is not a chronology. It is a field of recurrence. Forms disappear and return. Meanings shift. A fragment can remain unresolved until something made much later changes the way it is seen. The work grows through these relations.

Tattooing as observance.

For over a decade, tattooing has been central to Jona’s practice. Each tattoo is more than an image. It is a threshold, an encounter between two persons. It is both artistic expression and ritual service, offered to the one who seeks it: a gesture asked and returned, binding presence into skin and time. For an up-to-date selection of Jona’s tattoo work, please visit his portfolio on Instagram