Is the truth in the glitter or the grit?

Mirror-Ball Haiku is part of my “Circus of Metaphysics” cycle – a mirror ball throwing snow-globe light across furrowed ground, glamour over graft.

If you made it here, the algorithm behaved. Welcome home.

#haiku #contemporarypoetry #metaphysical

Antlers or tree?

A root in a beech wood. First of my “Mitate Ma Infinity Readymades” – real objects behaving like my images: logic/memory. Pareidolia in the wild.

What do you see first?

#pareidolia
#patternrecognition
#perception
#artandtechnology
#conceptualart
#photography
#mitatemainfinity

Why dyslexia is a huge advantage in an AI world:

I’m a novelist with dyslexia + APD. After a life of being told off for pour spelling, now my typos prove my work wasn’t written by AI

#Dyslexia #Neurodiversity #AI #WritingCommunity #Art

The Circus of Meaning - a haiku cycle

This piece is the second in a "circus of metaphysics" cycle. I'll share more over the next few weeks.

Find the first ‘Free Fall’ on Instagram

#haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #haikupoetry #surrealpoetry #existentialpoetry #circus #metaphysics

Interesting short story on substack @simulistephimera

Here’s part II of a short introduction

Interesting, dark, short, short story on Substack @simulistephimera

Here’s a quick intro

This is the unvarnished sound and vision of the pattern-making mind. I hear the cadence that others miss. If you want wonder, come on a journey.

Please tell me what your pareidolia ‘sees’.

#Neurodivergence #MythicSatire #ConceptualArt #パレイドリア #أسطورة #UKArt

I’ve just published a new short story, Terra Nonnullius.
5-minute read; 10 to work out who owns what; 5,000 years of human history to suggest you won’t be getting an answer any time soon.
What happens when journey equals ownership
simulistephimera.substack.com/p/terra-nonn...

Mono ma ∞ [32] ~ Mono ma ∞ [0000100000]
2025 150 × 100 cm John Rux-Burton

This series explores the hallucinatory power shared by the artist, AI, and the viewer.

We've made the AI in our image. It will always attempt closure; humans will always attempt ‘why?’

#JohnRuxBurton #Simulism #Monomano

Digital Mitate Mono - Towards a Kintsugi of Images

Simulism - the lost and the found as one

#Simulism #MitateMono #Kintsugi #JapaneseAesthetics #Art #見立て物 #金継ぎ

Mono* ma*∞-[2] ~ Mono * ma*∞–[0000000010] [Detail]
John Rux-Burton 2025 | Pigment print archival baryta paper 100 × 90 cm | 8 + 2 AP

Writer. Photographer. Maker of gardens. Simulist.

It's not our answers but our questions that define us...

Don't you think?

The Welsh Marches Japanese Garden — Where the Whale Talks to the Stars.

Built from Freegle, gratitude and thirty tonnes of rock

#Simulism #Art #JapaneseGarden

..."that same scene when peaceful love
Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove,
When mountain, meadow, wood and stream
With unalloying glory gleam,
And to the spirit's ear and eye
Are unison and harmony." Shelley The Retrospect written Cwm Elan 1812