April 2024

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated. This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

Springtime in the Mojave is in its prime. The following is a cinematic prose piece about how we learn to see, and what we to decide to pray about.

The Way That Bees Pray for Honey

In the spring, flowers bloom. Sleeping plants and hibernating animals come back to life. But Its not always obvious. Spring can be a quiet season in the desert. Sometimes you have to look close.

Perhaps you have noticed this in yourself. How you have changed in small ways. The way you see beauty now. In simple things. 

The way your mind bends toward the light these days. Because you wanted it to bend that way. You look for color and texture now. You have trained your eye to see. And your sense of smell has returned to you. Or maybe it hasn’t. All I know is what I see. And I have seen you learn to sit with flowers again.

And nowadays you speak less about the neighbor’s foul tongue. And you seem to care less about an idiot president. Or your lot in life. I have been watching you tend your wild garden.

How did you do it? How did you transform your mind like that? Did it come all at once? Or have you been working on this for a long time? 

I wonder if we should pray for things like that. The way that bees pray for honey. The way that ants protect the queen.

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March 2024

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated. This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

The artist travels south of the United States border and offers the travelogue titled, “BELOW” as a recapitulation of the adventure. This cinematic expression is BEST EXPERIENCED ON A DESKTOP MONITOR.

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February 2024

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated. This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

On Sunday, February 25 2024 Aaron Bushnell , a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, set himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.

“My name is Aaron Bushnell, I am an active duty member of the US airforce, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

Well done Aaron, thou good and faithful servant—may the angels carry you home.

This month JD covers the song “Jerusalem” by singer/songwriter Steve Earle. Following the song the artist shares his thoughts on our support of the Palestinian people at this time of crisis.

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January 2024

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated. This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

We set goals each year. What or who influences the setting of these goals? If we accomplish our goals, what do we hope will occur in our life? Is there a general tendency in the types of goals we set? This month, the artist considers his own goals in light of a trip he recently took—and a particular reflection he had while on this adventure. Perhaps his personal reflections will prod you to consider the nature of your own goals, dreams and ambitions.

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DECEMBER 2023

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated.

December marks the completion of 3 years, for 5Doors magazine/gallery.  Thank you for the messages you sent to let us know that what you encountered here was meaningful to you. Also, your contributions through the purchase of art and your donations have made this effort, possible. May your winter solstice find you blessed in the most essential ways. And may we all make 2024 a year of focused creativity and deliberate empathy. 

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“The Womxn With Exceptional Ears,” a short story by JD Rudometkin, was recently published in Luna Arcana Magazine.

Below is a conversation between Luna Arcana’s Editor/Creative Director, Rohini Walker and JD, in which themes and images from the short story are discussed.

Still image of Rohini Walker and JD Rudometkin taken from their conversation. Video Conversation below. 

Luna Arcana is an Arts & Literary print journal  from Joshua Tree, California: a homage to the deserts of the south-west, and to the hidden power and thriving life present in these arid terrains.

Luna Arcana documents stories of the desert in the form of words, illustrations and photographs, as well as features on members of the vibrant creative community who naturally gravitate to this landscape. Luna Arcana is an exploration of the unseen, occult forces that govern all life, and that the landscape of the desert draws out of those who gravitate here. Another key focus of Luna Arcana is the deep sense of humility the desert instills in the people who have chosen to call the it home, a humility made tangible by the conservation and permaculture work being done here, in particular within the community of Joshua Tree and its environs.

If you would like to purchase the a copy of this issue of the magazine, please visit Luna Arcana

To find out more about Rohini's work, visit https://www.rohiniwalker.com/

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NOVEMBER 2023

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated.

This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

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OCTOBER 2023

 
 

5 Doors is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated.

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SEPTEMBER 2023

 
 

5 Doors* is a monthly online magazine/gallery featuring new music, cinema, art, and writing from artist JD RUDOMETKIN and guest artists. It is also a communal space where rituals are curated. * This gallery is best experienced on a desktop/laptop computer.

This month’s release is a song called The Door. It can be procured via bandcamp by clicking on the “buy” link below.

The Door by Step Jayne
Written and Produced by JD Rudometkin

AI Image by Micheal Lopez

Lyrics

Well I took you down to hell
That place where you look at yourself
When there’s no where left to go yeah,
That’s what I came here for.

So come step down inside
Into the darker night
Cause you can’t run anymore
And that’s what you came here for.

How long you been walking that limp
Playing the wounded knee
And bleeding out into the the street
For everyone to see
Til you get sick of the trick
And drop down into the pit
Cause that’s what the death crawl wants
In the mirror and nothing more
With you lying down there on the floor
With you dying down there
And right over there is the door
And that’s what you came here for.

Look at you look at you.

And you are the one I adore
That voice in a desert town
That delivered your mind to your mouth
When I heard you calling out to me
And when I found you beside the pool
My heart sank into you.
There was nothing I could do.
There was nothing I would not do.

So I tried to ease your mind
And I wanted to hold your hand
But the gods had other plans
And tho I long more
I am the man at the door
With a light and a broken key
Willing to watch you scream
Down here where the hunger feeds
As I fall you fall to your knees
And bleed
Upon the looking glass

Look at you look at you

And you are the one I adore
That voice in a desert town
From your beautiful mind to your mouth
When I heard you calling out to me
Well I can pick you up
And I can help you stand
But I think you already know
That’s as far as I can go

(c) JD Rudometkin 2023

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