a ruin in progress
come in. sit down. just look at all this room.
This is not my name dot com. This space is an invitation. The projects housed here are the fruits of intense & playful collaboration with many folks across various modes / methods / channels of making & they are almost always ongoing.
I invite you to browse the links at the top of this page which have been loosely categorized into text / audio / image / etc.
You can also view more expansive projects such as Poem For You or [Ruins.In.Progress.] & feel welcome to say hi here.
Welcome warm
always & all ways
—C. (Constantine Jones).
***Please note that, because of the deliberate formatting of the works within, stories & noise is best viewed on a desktop whenever possible. All header photos & Polaroids within were taken by me unless expressly noted otherwise.***
most recently
The following text was compiled by a small group of doulas engaged in a kind of grief work over the past year that included Ben Evans, Alexandra Juhasz, Michael McFadden, Molly Pearson, Andrew Suggs, and me. This work was rooted in activating and responding to Alexandra Juhasz’s documentary film Please Hold 1 (2025) and its companion archival installation, Holding Patterns, presented in both New York and Los Angeles in the fall of 2025. Please Hold is an experimental documentary engaging with decades of DIY activist media, two death bed/legacy videos, and the wisdom of many living “AIDS workers,” as they all sit together in one (changing) format, video—VHS, Hi8, digital, Zoom—to address these and other questions:
How do neighborhoods, sweaters and scarves, videotapes, and queer bars hold ghosts?
How do we let them go?
upcoming
Yr presence is requested at the inaugural instance of a new reading series conceived by my beloved friend Jamie Hood & myself, hosted by the generous folks at Topos Too in Ridgewood.
FREE & open to the public.
WHAT: sex-positive, class-conscious, sometimes salacious, often speculative worldbuilding poems & more.
WHEN: Sunday, July 12, 7pm EST
WHERE: Topos Too, 59-22 Myrtle Ave, Queens, NY 11385
WHO: Jamie Hood, C. (Constantine Jones), Robert Balun, Ariel Martinez.