You ever fly all the way to Spain to photograph your Dalí art inside Dalí’s house because your internal compass told you to? Same.
Our lives are so short and if we don’t make these big moves when we have the opportunity, we could wake up someday and realize we missed all the boats. When I was 19 and working at the Mt. McKinley Princess Lodge in Alaska, all the senior citizen tourists would tell us to travel when we’re young. I’m already 41 and not getting any younger so the time is now. We could die tomorrow so today is everything (a reminder to myself).
As you can imagine, this was a hilarious experience. Heading to a museum, gallery, or a famous artist’s house to make something interesting happen is so much fun. I really get a kick out of being able to say that I had a pop up art show inside Dali’s house, Museu Dalí, Tate Modern, MOMA in NYC, Beyond The Streets, Tate Britain, Hirshhorn, and Shepard Fairey’s Over The Influence Gallery in LA. My artist CV looks very prestigious even though I haven’t had a real art show yet. A couple days before I filmed this, I was able to photograph seventeen of my #MFDALÍ collages on the grave of Dalí himself inside Museu Dalí in the nearby city of Figueres.
I do these things because I want my life to be an epic story; the tale of Liz would be seriously depressing if I had stayed working as a grocery store cashier to maintain a safe job (and Bezos would have taken away my health insurance anyway). Close proximity to fame while working in the music industry has shown me that going all in on my passions is 111% worth all the struggle. After over two decades of customer service, I’m ready to work smarter (AND harder) and use my creativity as my main source of income. I will be spending the whole of 2020 lease-free so I’m able to follow my internal compass full time and document the whole experience. You will definitely be seeing, reading, and hearing more about this adventure as I flesh out the details with my road trip partner.
All that enthusiasm for my art endeavors aside, I believe that Dalí would think my project was hilarious. I do plan on asking the AI version inside the Dalí Museum in Florida what he thinks about #MFDALÍ so we’ll see if that is something the technology will be able to answer. This trip may have seemed like a grand finale of sorts for the project but it’s just the beginning. I hope you enjoy this tour of Salvador Dalí’s house as much as I enjoyed making it.