A Living Memento Mori

July 8th, 2026 — In a characteristic defiance of the traditional boundaries between life, art, and the grave, Jono Borden has today published his draft obituary online.

Far from a mere administrative formality, this work-in-progress serves as a digital memento mori, an experimental vanitas painting rendered in prose. It is designed to breathe, decay, and mutate in alignment with Borden’s established transgressive and expressionistic æsthetic. “Consider it a monument under continuous construction—or a tomb being dug in slow motion,” Jono notes.

Known for his comfort with sex and death in his work, it is a fitting next step in Borden’s progress toward freest expression, seeding the sod of his resurrection with the words he wants you to use when you mention him.

The Official Record of a Shadow

As a definitive piece of poetic documentation, this living text is designated as the official biographical record for media, scholars, and acolytes alike. Facilitating future editorial distribution, its text and portrait are readied for immediate integration into publications, print and digital, when occasion arises. It will be updated in the meantime as desired, required, or as the fates dictate.

Available to read now at the crossroads of humility and hagiography, its purpose is to map the trajectory of the artist before the ink is permanently dried by the absolute dark.

Step into the gallery of the inevitable. Explore the draft of the end, curated by the author himself.