ATTN!!
digital zines BELOW. new vols. distributed across htx on thursdays
- chuck pierce
"This series exists to give language, purpose + guidance in a time that feels vague + undefined." - Kallie Foltz Bahorich
TAOR CREATIVES: photographers mark berkovich, nathan berry, kallie bahorich // models olash materanya, giuliana velez
NEW TRACK ALERT!!
TAOR :: IN PERSON EVENTS
kickoff party
Peep the pics from our TAOR KICKOFF PARTY + watch the 1st of our TAOR live art performances
- 9.22 at Boheme in HTX -
photos: Nicolas Torres
Join us Wed nights now - Nov 10 from 8-8:30pm for a powerful live art pop-up on the streets on Montrose (look for our big red Art Rebuilds walls ^^)
taor finale
Stand by
for the
greater later ...
The best is yet
to come
TAOR :: IN PRINT
DIGITAL ZINES: Every Thursday from Sept 23 - Nov 11, new printed "zines" (think magazine) are distributed across Houston in local shops, coffee shops, bars + restaurants in the hopes of bringing clarity + endurance to our city in this unprecedented moment of life + history. Below are the digital versions of our digital TAOR zines - **released Sunday mornings **
Introducing “THE ART OF REBUILDING,” an #ARTREBUILDS series by RECESS MVMT. What is "TAOR"? An eight-week community experience in print, online + in person, comprised of stories, imagery + poetic musings that speak to this de/re-constructive time. You in?
2021 is a significant bridge year between where we have been + where we are going. It's a time of transition, and much of what we've known is being brought low, and with that, we are being brought back to the start. The hope we have in all of this, though, is that the rebuilding that is to come is worth the painful decomposition that is required of us now. Dive in to unlock lost hope...
After hope, SURRENDER is another foundational key to rebuilding. You have to first *allow* the leveling of the old for the new structure to be born. It's painful, no doubt, but after pruning comes flourishing, & after weariness comes relief. Allow this volume to free you up to let go & yielddd all the way to the process...
Another key to rebuilding is what we call "PURE IMAGINATION". Once a hope for a better tomorrow has been set in the soul, and a willful surrender to any process required to achieve it, it then becomes imperative for the dormant dreamer to awaken within us...
RESILIENCE is another key when it comes to rebuilding. Many internal + external voices will push up against the emergence of a new you, and the world will seek to destroy the precious pearl of imagination, hope + humility you possess. But take heart! This is your metamorphosis. You’re not supposed to recognize yourself from who you were pre-Covid, err, cocoon, after all...
SENSITIVITY is another key in times of rebuilding. If we want to leave a mark in the sands of history, we must learn to keep our hearts tender to the times. “What is the earth crying out for? What is heaven saying in response, and how do we join in?” Creativity helps us cultivate sensitivity to + discernment of these rumblings...
IMAGERY is a key in times of rebuilding. Once we have allowed our hearts to be sensitive to heaven & earth, we will undoubtedly become vessels of divine visitations in the form of pictures, colors, movement, texture & light. It is then pressing that we steward these immaculate conceptions all the way to birth, & see to it that they find their way out into the world, for if we want a better future, we must embrace the power of images...
JOY is our final key in rebuilding. When courage is needed, joy brings the supply. And as we stand in this sacred season of dis/re-mantling things within our own hearts & world, it is urgent we find the source of that deep down, unshakable joy, lest we risk becoming completely depleted. Where does one find such lasting joy? Read on...
