DALI 

Our early ideation began with an introspective study of Salvador Dalí’s early life, not merely in the context of art, accomplishment or philosophy, but in family, in upbringing, in hobby, in matters of basic, fundamental human ideals - trauma and grief most significantly at times, and the rooted relationships that would have him so sure of his surrealist style and impressions.

This character analysis of Dalí lead to the submission of precisely 20 recipes to distill our impressions of the artist’s life into, presented to the Salvador Dalí Foundation in an abandoned basement under Grand Central Station in 2016, alongside the collaborative efforts of Broadway's finest, the evening would be best captured by a lobster foaming at the mouth, riding in on a tricycle with terrifying form before sharing a dance with a lamented sole, awkward movements to The Girl From Ipanema, before the lobsters nature would move its lust to handle the delicate sole with its deadly hands and eventually killing her by crushing her body. In the red slippers left behind by the sole, we would begin the course work for “A Sole In The Sole Of A Shoe” inspired by Dali’s “Scatalogical Object - Gala’s Shoe” where in his series he challenges the function and design of various objects.

The later manifestation of these dishes would find themselves within expensive walls, and significant company, with donors of the likes of Jimmy Choo providing studded heels to replace the earlier ruby red prototypes that were bought from Payless. The performers would additionally transform from proteins to various roots and leaf vegetables, reducing their streamline culinary identities to become more sophisticated forms of spirulina and   schisandra. The fashion would elevate; the service - much stranger and the collaboration between guests and artist would feel somewhat affirmative even, that so long as society was challenged by the parameters and esotericism of these dinners, we were perhaps cooking within the correct recipe instructions that Dalí had left us with in his cookbook.

As the translation of surrealism and dadaism would need more than a lifetime to justify, we hope to hallucinate further themes, courses and collaborations to extensively tire every ideation, articulation, protein, vegetable, sauce, all of it for the sake of Dalí, and for the sake of the freedoms we as artist must demand on behalf of the liberation of any and all peoples.