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Ring of Fire by Mark Gubb

A slow-motion video of a 1970s Evel Knievel wind-up toy being jumped through the middle of a burning car tyre (set up like a flaming hoop that stunt-bikers jump their bikes through).

The video starts as a close crop, front-on, to the centre/hole of the tyre.

The tyre is doused liberally in flammable liquid and set alight.

Through the hole, in the distance, we see the toy being wound up and released, jumping through the centre of the tyre off a small ramp.

After the toy has passed through the tyre, the camera slowly pans out to show the entire burning tyre, full-frame.

For several minutes (final length to be decided in the edit) the film focuses on the burning tyre, before fading to black.

Cultural Icon Fire by Mark Gubb

This could be a performance, an action, a video, a photograph, or all of them.

Using a flammable liquid or gel, a large pentagram (for example) is drawn on the floor, after dark. This is then set alight.

I have also imagined this as a potential series of ‘round iconography’ burns i.e. do the same with an anarchy symbol, C.N.D., a smiley etc.