This spur of the moment analog collage was made with a thrifted Salvador Dalí art book containing smaller Dalí images from Reader’s Digest gifted inside. I loved it so much that I made it into a sticker, covered it with resin, and followed it up with a year’s worth of Dalían study via reading and cutting up all the cheap Dalí art books I could source locally.
The original MFDALÍ collage that started it all.
If you’ve been following my social media profiles, you already know that this #MFDALI project has turned my internal compass to Spain and I’ve photographed some of my smaller collages on the grave of Salvador Dalí himself in Figueres, Spain in the last month. This collage was too big for my carry on suitcase so it stayed home but I did photograph the sticker version outside Museu Dalí. Still holding onto all the #MFDALI collages in hopes I’ll be able to have a solo show at some point alongside some of the originals… also not sure about the legality of selling collages that are so obviously made with Dalí’s art. I’ve emailed all the appropriate offices in Spain about it and I’m still growing into the fish they’ll reel in when they’re ready… or I’ll reach out again soon. I get better with every collage I make and I’m truly grateful I’ve spent so much time on this project so far.
Unstuck stickers outside Museu Dalí in Figueres, Spain. This photo was Day 100 or #100Daysofstickerswith206lizpart3
At first, I was just cutting up the least offensive Dalí images with the colors I liked looking at the most but now I’m strategically cutting up the contents of the permanent collection of the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida… problematic paintings included, for the photo ops. I’ve sidelined this project for awhile to work on creating a lucrative art career for myself via music videos, stop motion shorts, Street Art photography, TheRingOfDOOM merch, my analog collage art, and a whole bunch more but the #MFDALI project won’t be over for quite some time.
The I Dream In Dalí sticker in it’s natural habitat.
I’m glad I waited to immortalize this project on my website because as usual, my ideas get better with age. Since these collages are intended to depict the Dalían dreams of my fictional character TheRingOfDOOM, I’ve started to develop the stories I created for each collage and the results are truly hilarious. I’ll be posting the collages in the order I’ve created them with the stories attached. I may try to animate the series at some point but I now present the text version of the story for the first in the #MFDALÍ series, I DREAM IN DALÍ, below…
I DREAM IN DALÍ by TheRingOfDOOM
My first Dalían dream was a trip to say the least. This first hallucination seemed to set a scene instead of tell a story but I had no idea at this point how truly weird my Dalían dreams would become and the legends they would begin to weave together.
I had fallen asleep while watching the clouds roll by and thinking about the plethora of life options ahead of me. I’m guessing the golden framed human shapes that appeared in a pitch black room are rooted in my deep love for my creator and the life we’re building together with our head in the metaphoric clouds. Seems like the reason I’m on both tables in the smaller gilded human shapes is because I’m still thinking too small and have yet to move into the infinite potential of my larger self.
Pretty sure the table cloths must be tousled because my content delivery is less than smooth at this point but I know I’ll get better with age. There’s little on the horizon because my main focus at this time is targeted on building a sustainable and happy life with my creator… very few distractions surround us because we’ve gilded our friendship and no one else can get in (or we’ve covered them with some messy tablecloths). Still working on whether or not this is a good thing… I know it’s vital to be able to deflect the bad energies of others but empathy also reigns supreme when learning how weave others into your internal tapestry. A truly interesting life will always be a work in progress until it isn’t so the journey is priceless.
Guessing there are two of me present because I waffle back and forth between sprinting toward our infinite potential and drowning in my To Do lists. Previous to this dream, I hadn’t been documenting my nocturnal visions but when they’re this photogenic… I gotta collect and share em all.