5 Doors* is a monthly online gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN. It is also a communal space where monthly rituals are curated. * This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.
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Lupine Ovis Aries - oil on canvass 36"x 36" (91.44 x 91.44cm) $1500 US + shipping (c) JD Rudometkin 2021. Contact artist regarding this piece, or for commissioned artwork.
Wolf Mother
Love is chasing me down
like a wolf mother
in the prime of her life.
I would die that way
with her blood in my mouth.
And now she has settled into my arms
as a newborn lamb
Still wet with the birth of heaven.
Love is holding itself
with me.
If you leave this world before I do,
Please thank our mother
for all the times her fang
sank through my neck.
And through your neck.
As impossible as that may be.
I used to wake up wondering
If god was cruel or wise
And if I could ever believe
In anything again.
But now I know that happiness
is not the point.
And all the other wolves
that take your life down here
will not hold you
when you die.
In order to fully experience the conversation above, you are encouraged to watch the video “The Sheep Are Safely Gathered In” (below).
Step Jayne is JD Rudometkin's music project. Over the past 5 years, he has released the album SILVER BULLET SUICIDE, one track at a time with an accompanying video. In this issue, Dr. Tim Chinnock (cinematographer), Megan Hutch (Actor) and JD discuss the purpose of art and the creation of the video for the album's fifth track, "The Sheep Are Safely Gathered In."
Listen to and procure the new track from Step Jayne, “The Raven” (After clicking play, the song may take A FEW MOMENTS TO LOAD—Thank you for your patience).
Guitar/Electronic Composition: JD Rudometkin
Produced by JD Rudometkin
Mix and Mastering: JD Rudometkin
Cover photo: Nathan Jerome Rudometkin
We change incrementally. Simple rituals, practiced daily, can reprogram our minds. Each month we will practice a new ritual together.
Model: Nastasia Celeste. Butterfly Art: Alice Batliner. Photos & Design: JDR
the sun at dawn
Many of us haunt the wee hours of night—mulling over oddities, howling at the moon, perhaps feeling as if we did not pull enough out of the day. For such nocturnes, the dawn is illusive, and we often do not greet the sun until it is well into the sky. It’s a routine. And as with all routines, we are afforded a feeling of safety and predictability. Meanwhile, the early morning passes on without us and we may be missing out on what the dawn gives. Perhaps flipping our usual routine will jar us, shake us up, give us an entirely new method. Would you like to join me then, at dawn this month? Let’s greet the sun together for 7 days consecutively. I’ll be doing mine May 7-13. Come see Ra with me.
“The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma,
heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core,
radiating the energy mainly as visible light and infrared radiation.
It is by far the most important source of energy for
life on Earth.”
- Lord Wiki
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We can learn to trust ourselves again and adjust our course as needed, by keeping simple, consistent rituals. In former times, we have looked outside ourselves, blamed others, and sought truth, externally. Today, we reclaim our way. We sit in quiet communion and reset our minds.
Why?
To create a sense of stability in what appears to be an unstable world.
To shift thought/behavior patterns.
To enter communion (let's do this ritual together). In communion we find meaning.
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