TheRingOfDOOM 00028: Surfing The Seas Of Our Souls

This latest from the MF DALÍ collection was made with Salvador Dalí images, scissors, glue sticks, and an iPhone as usual. TheRingOfDOOM managed to outsurf his own daemons by taking the waterslide of life and reaching for another glass of water. He wants to remind you to hydrate and remember that clean water is a luxury. He’s hoping to join forces with those who are fixing the problem.

I’ve resurrected #100DaysOfTheRingOfDOOMvideos from the depths of its own DOOM and this is Day 7 of the project. It had been overanalyzed way too long because I felt bad for hijacking music from people I respect but I hope they know it’s all love and that I’m happy to replace it if they wish. This song is DJ Shadow’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” from The Private Press album. I saw the tour when it came through The Showbox back in the day; it was a damn good day.

TheRingOfDOOM 00027 MARCEL DUCHAMP'S TATE MODERN PORTAL TO SALVADOR DALÍ'S POOL

I went all the way to Portlligat, Spain via light rail, airplane, Underground, train, bus, and by foot to make this video happen and it’s one of the best things I’ve done so far. This is what happens when I follow my internal compass, I would highly recommend it. It is likely my next trip in May is on hold but I still have tons of footage from October/November 2019 to edit into the next videos of TheRingOfDOOM’s YouTube series.

TheRingOfDOOM 00026: The Door To Opportunity

The latest in TheRingOfDOOM series was filmed in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. I grew up in the area, left for a decade to work fun jobs seasonally, and have been a Seattle resident since 2007. This has me feeling like I’ve seen almost everything this city has to offer already (I know this is NOT true) which is why most of my videos are filmed elsewhere. My wanderlust is stuck on 11. Thankfully, the Street Artists of the world have helped to make my life a scavenger hunt of awesome and I find something new every time I’m out in the world.

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I had seen this on Mows’ instagram a few weeks back and finally went to check it out yesterday. Worth it! Since I’ve declared myself to be a full time artist now, I’m working on actually opening the doors to opportunity instead of just putting it on a To Do list… so visiting this tiny door on the Fremont Bridge was perfectly timed.

TheRingOfDOOM series remains under one minute and instrumental for now but change is when all the best stuff happens.

TheRingOfDOOM 00023: Head East For Mae West's Lips

My favorite thing about this video is that I went all the way to Museu Dalí in Figueres, Spain with some art from my #MFDALÍ project to make it and that this art installation is so MF awesome. Experiencing something in person is infinitely more life-changing than reading about it and/or watching a video about it. I currently have many things in my possession that I’m saving to recreate my own version of this but I’m taking a different route and using moss for the hair… that’s as far as I’ve gotten; looking forward to fleshing out that project when the time is right. Most likely, the next version of this will be created three-dimensionally in a cardboard box or in the woods.

An #MFDALÍ moment in Museu Dalí in Figueres, Spain.

An #MFDALÍ moment in Museu Dalí in Figueres, Spain.

I made the #MFDALÍ collage featured at the end of the video with three of the same Salvador Dalí images to give the original an alternate reality. This is one of the first I did back when I was still wary of destroying a masterpiece and didn’t want to ruin the integrity of the original. Now I realize that each collage becomes more of my own masterpiece the more I cut it up and that abandoning the composition of the original creates the most interesting results. The point of the whole project is to learn so I’m grateful to have made enough collages to have figured this out.

On this day, I did not bring TheRingOfDOOM’s lip couch with me but I’m so grateful to have made the photos of my own collage work inside the museum that I really don’t care about missing one photo op. I did get to photograph the tiny lips couch the next day in and outside of Dali’s house in Portlligat with other versions of the lips couch… video on that part of the adventure coming soon.

I’m very much looking forward to seeing how I scale my art endeavors as I learn, grow, and create bigger opportunities for myself.