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height: 701.82px; max-width: 1052.74px;" width="1200" /> </div><div class="entry-content" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; display: block; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 175.38px; margin-right: 175.38px; margin-top: 31.5px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DAD ART, An INTERACTIVE Performance about Life and Death and Love: Linda Mary Montano</span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday, November 11, 2018 </span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Presented by Defibrillator Gallery and Zhou B Art Center</span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in collaboration with local artists:</span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Angeliki Tsoli | Paul Escriva | Emily Eddy | Zachary Vanes | Lauren Pirritano | Andy Somma | Carole McCurdy | Pamela Strateman | Joseph Ravens and the Audience</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Image credit: </span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holly Arsenault per Kazum via Paul Escriva.</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">********************</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An ethereal atmosphere was created by Linda Montano and her company of performers at the Zhou B Art Center. During the three hour performative ritual </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dad Art, </span></i><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the room was inhabited by a blurred assembly of audience and artists. Humans, filling benches and scattered transparent chairs, were adorned in glorious colored hair, wings, ‘real news’ signs, and utilitarian jumpsuits. These garments were notably illustrated the personality of the wearer and were more fashion than costume. The distinctively dressed bodies made the large yet intimate room resonate with stories of remembrance, forgiveness, and mourning as individuals were welcome to approach a microphone to speak on the topic of their fathers. Occasionally a whistle would blow, cueing Linda Montano to lead the crowd in a song glorifying the mysteries of the pancreas, the pineal gland, and other puzzling yet seemingly necessary bodily organs. A video of Linda Montano’s father, intermittently silent and subtitled, provided an emotional and visal backdrop to the space. The moving images show her father playing the trumpet, eating, painting, and struggling with his final breaths as the film documents the last day of his life in home hospice care. The artist comments on the images of her father’s paintings, describing his zen-like practice of spending an hour a day absorbed in mark-making with a set of poster paints. She speaks of his practice as a desire to communicate and express his deep love of life. She plainly states that his paintings “were not art”. The transcendent afternoon of remembering, sharing, and processing death concluded with a procession outdoors and the burning of sage and written memories generated by the participants. The event was less of a performance than a experience that provided an invitation to reflect and give substance to memories of childhood, fatherhood and a visceral connection to lost opportunities to give and receive love. </span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">****</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the spirit of Linda Montano’s </span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some Q and A between Joanna Furnans and Kristin Abhalter Smith </span></em></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joanna Furnans:</strong> Why does this work feel important to you right now?</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kristin Abhalter Smith</strong>: Personally, I was drawn to seeing this work because of the reputation Linda Montano has in the world of performance. I have had her book of transcribed conversations, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, </span></i><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on my shelf for several years and often turn to it for inspiration and its reminders to me of how artists are the most honest, inquisitive, and fascinating people. I have a great affinity for her work and am drawn to people who think like her. I don’t think I can speak to the importance of the work beyond my personal experience, but I do find a lot of richness of spirit in the performance community in Chicago. This was Linda Montano with an unmistakable ensemble of Chicago artists. The work has a very intimate, welcoming quality. This is the kind of feeling I want to have when I am attending a performance. I want to be included in the experience and be involved in the making of the story. I think that there are many performers who are wonderful storytellers, but not all of them ask you to reflect on your own memories while they are sharing theirs. </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dad Art</span></i><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> offers space for reflection between the performative moments. I respond to the power and the dignity of the wisdom of years, (decades and lifetimes!) represented in the work and I suppose that is what is most universally important about what is happening on the stage they are creating. Linda Montano is an important artist and the ongoing relationship she has with Chicago and performance artists is fascinating. The reason I feel this way has developed from being made aware of the depth of feeling among the performers I call friends. I feel honored to have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of these relationships and hear about some of its wonderful history through Paul Escriva, Montano’s collaborator and friend. </span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JF</strong>: What is it like to attend a durational performance?</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 31.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KAS</strong>: The format is not completely unfamiliar to me, as I am accustomed to art events that last several hours, when people can come and go. I actually missed the first hour of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dad Art</span></i><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(127, 140, 141); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and am not sure how this would have changed my experience. I didn’t feel like I needed any kind of special introduction to the space because the atmosphere I encountered had already been established and throughout the afternoon, people passed through the space in a casual way. The venue was a large sculpture gallery at Zhou B art center and the seats were benches and floor. There was a lot of repetition in the format, with the musical interludes about organs which bracketed the storytelling. This reminded me a little bit of a religious event or something I might have experienced at a summer camp in my childhood. I liked the casual atmosphere and the willingness of the audience to participate. I guess I just found it relaxing. There were performers walking around inviting audience members to dance with them to music in headphones. I would have wanted to be chosen to participate in this activity, the dancing part, but I didn’t feel moved to approach the microphone. Perhaps I felt the space sacred to those who had lost fathers to death. This performance seemed a tour guide for that sacred river I have yet to cross.</span></div></div></article></main></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-71407439138337123142019-03-25T04:45:00.001-07:002019-03-25T04:45:21.383-07:00DEATH IN THE ART AND LIFE OF LINDA MARY MONTANO: LECTURE AT DORSKY<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let me begin with this: "Take all I say with a grain of salt." I am a beginner at this business called Death. Today I will take us on an interactive tour through <i>The Art/Life Hospital</i>, and describe how each piece, each project spoke to or about death.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And why the "art/life hospital?" After a palm reader told me I would go to the hospital 2 times before I die, I got negatively triggered and angry. Asking myself, "How can I make art of this nonsense?" I had an embossed sign made for my house that said, The Art/Life Institute and Transfiguration Hospital. Making art of it helped so I thought living in a hospital at home has been wonderful, and so I brought the hospital to the Dorsky so I can continue to soothe my own possible hospital future and maybe that of museum goers.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION ONE: THE COFFIN/ SKELETON/DEATH MASK/DOLL/BABY CHICKEN PUPPETT: </b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY</b><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: Growing up Roman Catholic in Saugerties NY, I was theologically directed toward the Crucifix and Hell. Nuns and priests were good at that manifesto. It's what they learned. And the Crucifixion kept those of us who bought that one-sided bias <span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">perpetually scared and penitent and thinking we had to be crucified too if we wanted to be like our God-Jesus. At least I did. I had not learned the theology of the Resurrection. I became an early death-aholic.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE:</b> By presenting the coffin as art and reminding others about death AS ART, I am taking my childhood preoccupation and terror, re-contexualizing it with humor(chicken puppet) and defusing fear by letting art be my medicine and life-healing. Also look closely, I wrote on the wall next to the coffin , very lightly, like a bad school child, "I'm dying." Laughing with death is a fine thing to do sometimes. And my deceased relatives and friends are pictured in the photos next to the coffin: Mom, Dad, Mitchell, Karl, Nan, Grandma, Ula, Dr. Mishra, Kalu Rimpoche and of course Jesus and Mary, mentoring me how to die.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>INTERACTION: 1.</b></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 2: 14 DRAWINGS: RIGHT HAND/LEFT HAND</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY:</b> During<i> 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART</i>, I promised myself I would only allow one drawing a year. A small death, because I love to draw. The first seven years of my performance, I drew the teaching I received from the chakra that I was practicing . The drawing was done with my right hand. The second seven years, I copied the exact same drawing with my left hand.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE</b>: Syncronicity? Why are these in the Art/Life Hospital show? About 7 years ago, I broke my right hand in two places. You guessed it , I can only draw with my left hand now. A small death, but yes a death and loss. But hey, the drawings aren't bad. They look like outsider art.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>INTERACTION 2.</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 3: THE DOLLS</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY:</b> My grandmother was an Outsider Artist and I sat next to her silent self as she made lots of outsider things. Including dolls. And another backstory fact is that I firmly believe that women who don't choose or cant have biological children need to womb-mourn that. That's a path to self forgiveness.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE</b>: These 7 Gland Dolls are my substitutes, my fill ins for children I might have had. They are my mourning. What had to die? What needed mourning was the fact that I didn't have children with my husband and so my art gives me an opportunity to "FIX" my life. For over 50 years I have made dolls as fixes. And these are double fixes because they all have Mother Mary's face and so I get to make my own version of the Infant of Prague statue, my own version of the Black Madonna painting and statue, my own version of forgiving myself as art. Art is a wonderful therapist. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plus the audience gets to practice compassion by praying at each doll bed and then rocking a chakra doll in the rocking chair. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>INTERACTION 3:</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 4: THE 7 BLACKBOARDS AND 7 LIGHTS</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY:</b> Who doesn't remember if you are over 70, writing on blackboards, erasing, making your own mark. Who doesn't want to be an artist while standing in beautiful colored light? Who doesn't want to turn their back on the world, dive into their own fantasy dream and draw a miracle on a blackboard? </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE: </b>The small death here is about my handing over the paint brush to the museum goer, handing over the title artist, handing over the inner hubris that often accompanies this vocation that sometimes titles people who paint/draw/sing/sculpt/write----- SPECIAL. Funny how social media has changed that burden of specialness assigned to ONLY ARTISTS and now everyone is equally fabulous . Back to death. How is this station about death? By allowing everyone to be a participant/artist by drawing on the blackboards while standing in their own private spa bath of chakra light, I am dying to my own specialness, my own artiste-ness. But there is also a hidden agenda here: at 77 years old, I must be in preparation for asking for help, I must prepare for a time when I have to hand over the objects I've made. Hand over the chalk. I must hand over my once special talent and ask for help as my energy levels change. So this blackboard station is multi-level: it is about including the other as artist and also a rehearsal for my own personal practice called the art of aging and dying. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>INTERACTION 4:</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 5: THE VIDEOS: </b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY:</b> When talking and speaking were not my childhood practices or skills, video later became a perfect language and way to communicate and pray. A 22 year collaboration with Tobe Carey allowed me to speak as I wanted, not how I was told by church/school/society/patriarchy. Art is a ticket to freedom.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE:</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>1. LEARNING TO TALK:</i></b> I was in emotional anxiety in 1975 and dissociated, got out of my skin, left town so to speak, found a way to not think about my own pain by becoming 7 different personas. For a year, I sat in front of a video camera and interviewed myself. I learned to <b>theologically </b>die to having to be me.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>2.MITCHELL'S DEATH</i></b>: My ex-husband was murdered. Mourning him as art was a therapy, was a path, was a way to grieve.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>3.ANOREXIA NERVOSA:</i></b> Anorexia was my not so subtle way of performing self harm and literally becoming an 82 pound skeleton. In this video, I asked 12 other women to talk about their eating disorder so I could understand mine. Read <i>Holy Anorexia </i>for another take on the subject of anorexia.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>4.ON DEATH AND DYING</i></b>: By Bart Friedman. Vicki Stern, Elizabeth Cross and I , dressed as faux nuns, played cards and distracted the viewer from the possible heavy and scary death talk by Woodstock elder, Mescal Hornbeck, nurse and hospice worker.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>5.CHAKRAPHONICS:</i></b> This video explores the way I got to not be me for 14 years. Theologically dying to the encultured self.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>6.BENARES:</i></b> By visiting the burning ghats of Benares, I was able to see how Hindu culture accepted and incorporated death and cremations and dying elders into everyday life. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>7.DYSTONIA:</i></b> Edited by Tobe Carey: How to know that old age , sickness and death is a reality? Try a chronic illness that daily invites pain, spasm and tremors into the picture. Then make art of it. Good opioid.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>8.LIVING ART/DYING ART</i></b>: edited by Tobe Carey. A ride through death rituals from as many cultures as we could find via images/you tubes and my own personal experience of taking care of my father for 7 years and being with my mother as she died. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>I9. 'M DYING:</i></b> Edited by Tobe Carey. A reminder to get my life together. Each year I will tell the camera "I'm Dying. " So I wont forget.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b> INTERACTION: 5</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 6: THE PERFORMANCE</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>BACKSTORY</b>: Because my mother could not breastfeed, I was not given mother's milk and became ill on cow's milk. Also I was sick with other things as an infant so I would suppose my parent's fear of my dying got imprinted. Death became an early thought. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>THE ART & ANTIDOTE: PERFORMANCE</b>: I lay in the coffin for 2 hours at the opening and closing. As I lay there fixing my past, a Gland Doctor and surrogate Mother, Amanda Heidel, feeds me from two baby bottles; one mother's milk and the other goats milk, a drink that I was fed at infancy. The negative gain mind-game can be- keep thinking of the back story stay miserable or fix it with art. That is, I get to feel what it is like to really drink mother's milk in this performance albeit a bit late, by 77 years. Fix it. I always choose the art-fix and I must admit therapy is helping a lot as well. While im getting fixed, the three Gland Doctors: Lynn Herring, Megumi Naganoma and Arielle Ponder circulate throughout the Hospital, taking syncronized pulses. Fixing others. Service to all. Being missionaries. And the video at the foot of the coffin, <i>ONE LOVE</i> a breast feeding performance by Christina Varga, edited by Tobe Carey, is begging that all who see it know that this is the RIGHT WAY. Life WINS. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>STATION 7: THE END-GAME</b></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Death and orgasmic sex have been conceptually allied and seen as close friends via the petite mort reference. At the petite/little mort, time stops, thought stops, worry stops, body stops and there is only the experienced ecstasy of love and fun light. Maybe the grande mort, the end-game is just a bigger petite mort. May it be so.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b><b></b><br /></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>CONCLUSION</b>: I'm dying. We all have to do it.</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>ART& ANTIDOTE</b>: Let's dance to Love and Light while we wait. </div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>INTENTION</b>: DANCE</div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; 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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.lindamontano.com/artist-bio/" id="LPlnk528933" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">LINDA MARY MONTANO</a></strong> [ <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="http://www.lindamontano.com/" id="LPlnk587586" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.lindamontano.com</a> ] is a seminal figure in contemporary feminist performance art, Linda Montano’s work since the mid 1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging. She has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco, and the ICA in London. Montano has taught Performance Art, published five books, and has over fifty free videos on YouTube.</em></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #474747; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Lato",Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 2.34px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1998 I began collaborating with my father on video: recording our meals, time together, and finally getting to know him. For four years we enjoyed this art-life collaboration. After he had a hemorrhagic stroke, I literally hid behind the video camera because I couldn’t face my Dad’s situation. So for 3 years I recorded it all so I didn’t have to see it…feeding/bathing/walking. I mourned his death with my art family, probably around 2007, at Pauline Olliveros’ Deep Listening space on Broadway in Kingston and then for some time after that I shared the video-performance, but very rarely because the pain was too raw. But thirteen years later, I am able to re-share this experience because of many things but especially because of music! My parents had a band in the 30’s and 40’s: Dad played drums and trumpet and sang; Mom sang. So when I began focusing on SINGING FOR MY PARENTS AS ART in DAD ART and seriously included my singing in this INTERACTIVE mourning-meditation, the video took on a teaching-tool function and way for me to rise out of debilitating pain and fly toward trance-formation. Also audiences have a chance to interact with over seven other performer-collaborators and deal with death performatively, which opens a door to REALLY being with Impermanence. We all get it: LIFE IS SHORT. Art makes it spacious and long for a minute. The interactive aspect is what makes DAD ART a communal ART OF HEARTFELTNESS/COMMUNITY. Dedicated to Pauline Oliveros.</span>” </em><i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #474747; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Lato",Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 2.34px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i>– Linda Mary Montan</div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-41950356321317157422018-11-24T10:30:00.000-08:002018-11-24T10:30:09.607-08:00MORE DAD ART INFO FOR PERFORMERS<span style="background-color: orange;">MORE DAD ART INFO FOR PERFORMERS</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 21.33px;">INTENTION</span></b>: THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE EXPERIENCE: THAT YOU HAVE A PERSONAL KOAN/INTENTION/PRAYER THAT YOU BRING TO THE EXPERIENCE. WE ARE NOT "PERFORMANCE ARTISTS" BUT SHARERS OF ENERGY. AND WHEN THAT ENERGY CIRCULATES AMONG US AND THE INTERACTING AUDIENCE, WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPEN. THE PERFORMANCE IS DEDICATED TO PAULINE OLIVEROS. I FIRST PRESENTED<b> DAD ART </b>AS A MEMORIAL "SERVICE'<b> </b> FOR PAULINE/IONE AND A FEW FRIENDS AT THE PAULINE OLIVEROS FOUNDATION ON BROADWAY, KINGSTON , 2007. THE NEED FOR ALL OF US TO CONTINUE TO EMBRACE EACH OTHER, IN ART, CONTINUES. LINDA</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <u>DANCE OF LIFE</u>: YOU WEAR DANCE CLOTHES, NICE HAIR, EARBUDS WITH 2 EAR BUDS ONE FOR U ONE FOR DANCING WITH YOU. MUSIC: PLEASE DOWNLOAD <b><i><u> JACKIE GLEASON MUSIC FOR LOVERS </u></i></b>FROM YOU TUBE. YOU AND PARTNER DANCE TO THIS MUSIC AS LONG AS YOU FEEL IS GOOD FOR YOU BOTH. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u> WATER HEALER</u></i>: PLEASE CREATE A LOW IMPACT HEALING ACTION WITH WATER. EASY/SIMPLE/ LOVING... PEOPLE COME TO U AND U USE WATER AS A VEHICLE. BLACK CLOTHES NICE HAIR RED LIPS. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u> CHOIR LEADER.</u></i> YOU STAND NEAR/BY ME AS I SING AND AFTER EACH OF 7 SONGS YOU LEAD THE AUDIENCE IN THE GLAND SONGS. PLEASE PRINT OUT 7 PAPERS WITH THE 7 GLANDS MAKE SURE TO MAKE LETTERING BIG AND USE THE NUMBERS 1, 2, 3 ETC GLANDS ARE: 1. OVARIES/TESTES 2. PANCREAS 3. ADRENALS 4. THYMUS 5. THYROID 6. PINEAL 7. PITUITARY ...YOU WILL REHEARSE AUDIENCE IN THYMUS BY HOLDING UP THAT PAPER AND SINGING THAT ONE ONCE AND THEN ONCE WITH THEM. TO LEARN THE GLAND SONGS GO TO NURSE NURSE YOU TUBE OR 7 SONGS FOR 7 GLANDS ( THAT MIGHT BE PULLED OFF U TUBE, NOT SURE)) WE ALSO CAN REHEARSE ON PHONE 845-399-2502..YOU CAN ALSO LEARN FROM INTERACTIONARAM VIDEO BELOW. YOU NEED A CHAIR NEAR MY CHAIR. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u>SECRETARY TO DEATH</u></i>. YOU WEAR A BACK WARDS DEATH MASK. I BRING THE DEATH MASK. AT UR INTRO YOU INVITE PEOPLE TO COME TO YOU AND DICTATE ANYTHING THEY NEED TO SAY ABOUT DEATH TO YOU AND YOU WILL WRITE IT DOWN. YOU PROVIDE PAPER(START RECYCLING PAPER) OR IF U HAVE A PAPER CONCEPT YOU WANT TO USE. MAKE SURE U BRING SOMETHING HARD TO WRITE ON BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A TABLE FOR YOU TO WRITE ON AT THE SITE. KEEPING IT LOW TECH. </div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u>MASTER OF CEREMONIES;</u></i> YOU WILL BE THE MC. PLEASE MAKE A NICE SIGN TO SAY MC ON YOUR CHEST OR BACK...SHOW ME VIA EMAIL BEFORE THE DAY. CLOTHES BLACK. BUT AS MC YOU 2 SHOULD HAVE A DISTINGUISHING HAT???OR WHAT?? SOMETHING? PLEASE HAVE A WHISTLE..EVERY 12 MINUTES YOU USE THE WHISTLE AND BLOW IT, TO INDICATE WHEN I WILL SING. ALSO YOU WATCH EACH OF THE "STATIONS" AND ANNOUNCE WHEN A PERSON COULD GO TO A STATION BY SAYING: " IF YOU WISH YOU CAN GO TO THE WATER HEALER" OR "IF YOU WISH ONE OF THE LISTENER CHAIRS IS EMPTY" ETC</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u>ANGEL </u></i> YOU WEAR ALLLLLLLLLL WHITE CLOTHES. FLOWY IF POSSIBLE. MAKE SURE U KEEP IN TOUCH AND SHOW ME YOU WEARING YOUR CLOTHES ON EMAIL PHOTO...(ON THE EMAIL) NICE NICE HAIR...FLOWERS IN HAIR. I BRING THE WINGS. YOU FLY AROUND. BLESS YOURSELF ALOT.....AND WHEN FEEL MOVED FLY AND BLESS OTHERS. MAKE SURE YOU STAND IN BACK OF ME DURING THE SONG YOU LIKE BEST AND BLESS ME AS WELL.</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u>RESTING:</u></i> YOU WILL BRING SOMETHING NICE TO LAY DOWN ON. AND ARRANGE THAT BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE. YOU WILL WEAR SUNGLASSES AND STAY RESTING/SILENT/ LISTENING THE ENTIRE TIME UNTIL THE ENDING PROCESSION OUTSIDE. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">: <i><u>LISTENER</u></i>: YOU SIT ACROSS FROM AN EMPTY CHAIR. PEOPLE COME TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT DEATH …..PLEASE DONT FEEL OBLIGED TO GIVE <b><i><u> ADVICE </u></i></b> JUST LISTEN...AND BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE. YOU CAN ASK, "DO YOU WISH ME TO SAY ANYTHING?" ...OR SOME WAY OF CONNECTING.. I GUESS SAYING "I'M SO SORRY."..IS GOOD? LETS CHAT . CALL ME IF YOU WISH .WEAR, ALL BLACK GREAT HAIR, OR WIG.. RED LIPS...</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <i><u>PROCESSION LEADERS</u></i> YOU 2 WILL BE ONSTAGE. BLACK CLOTHES SUNGLASSES. DURING THE PERFORMANCE CAN YOU AND RICARDO PROVIDE VERY VERY VERY LOW IMPACT RATTLE(EGG?) OR NICE BELL OR CHIME? YOU DESIGN A PROCESSION AT THE END ( AS YOU ENTER STAGE YOU INVITE ALL TO COME OUTSIDE AT END TO BURN THE LETTERS TO DEATH) YOU GO TO STEPHANIE, HELP HER GATHER THE LETTERS AND START THE PROCESSION FROM THERE ALONG WITH STEPHANIE.. YOU AND RICARDO BRING A METAL BOWL AND MATCHES...ALSO SOME PERFORMATIVE WAY TO LEAVE THE SPACE AND MARCH OUTSIDE ..I HAVE USED THE SONG I'LL FLY AWAY AND YOU CAN DO THE SAME IF YOU WISH????OR WHAT EVER YOU WISH. IF YOU WANT CAN INCLUDE BANNERS???? CAN SING ILL FLY AWAY????LOW AND SOFT??? ANGEL ACCOMPANIES YOU..</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b></b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u>LISTENER</u></i>: YOU AND ARE THE 2 LISTENERS : YOU SIT ACROSS FROM AN EMPTY CHAIR. PEOPLE COME TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT DEATH …..PLEASE DONT FEEL OBLIGED TO GIVE <b><i><u> ADVICE </u></i></b> JUST LISTEN...AND BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE. YOU CAN ASK, DO YOU WISH ME TO SAY ANYTHING YOU CAN ASK, DO YOU WANT ME TO HOLD YOUR HAND?? ...OR SOME WAY OF CONNECTING.. I GUESS SAYING "I'M SO SORRY."..IS GOOD? LETS CHAT . CALL ME IF YOU WISH .WEAR ALL BLACK GREAT HAIR OR WIG, RED LIPS</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> <i><u>VIDEO</u></i>: E. PLEASE MAKE THE VIDEO PARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT OF THE PERFORMANCE. HAVE A SIGN THAT SAYS PRESS...A REALLY NICE SIGN ON YOUR BODY OR ON YOUR FOREHEAD??? BE "OBVIOUS" MAKE IT A GAME OR FUN...ORRRRRR LET'S TALK.....WE NEED A WAY TO PERFORM PRESS....ETC. </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="color: black;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div><div dir="ltr" lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><div class="x_x_x_WordSection1"><div class="x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div></div><div id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div><div><div id="x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-6540515334721495232018-11-24T10:25:00.002-08:002018-11-24T10:25:46.297-08:00ROSHI BERNIE GLASSMAN<div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;"><br /></span><div> </div></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u><span style="background-color: orange; font-size: large;">ROSHI BERNIE GLASSMAN RIP</span></u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><b></b><i></i><u></u><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In the 70's I was living in California…..5 years in San Francisco and another 5 in San Diego. At that time, I was going to Maezumi Roshi's Zen Center in LA for teachings and remember seeing Bernie there. Over the years I would read about his clowning and peace and justice work and was always very inspired/impressed but about 6 months ago I got that I wanted to go to his Concentration Camp sesshin but did not follow the call.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> I had also heard about his Yonkers social practice bakery and the fact that there was MORE!!!! ...that he invited students to live on the streets to do sesshin practice there as literally homeless dependent/needy people who had no money/no bed/no clothes. Bernie seemed to be a performative kind of person friendly with fear and trembling as substitutes for sitting on the cushion to achieve the big wake up.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So when he died this weekend I found links and have listened non-stop to his teachings and posts and interviews which rounded out the portrait of this man and his life's work. And in almost 20 hours of listening I have not smelled an ego or a subconscious blunder or a stain of oye vey....but have seen and witnessed someone cleaned out by meditation and called to reach out and share non-seperation with others. But not with just others but with the Hungry Ghosts. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> It happened this way: He was driving to work in LA, still being a Roshi at the Zen Center there but heard a call to "feed the hungry ghosts" or something like that. After listening to many variations of this story I was able to piece together his "hungry Ghost" reference and got that he meant that the "hungry Ghosts" were others in need of more: more food/money/pleasure/power/etc. But he also indicates that wanting to address these hungers and fix others was also a call to "fix" his own hunger. For I think 10 years he had been a bona-fide/strict Zen master who could keep hunger in order and when he saw students being "hungry" he could invite them/order them back to their cushion when they presented their "hungers." Then he was literally called to leave the world of order and sitting inside and took the show on the road to the streets/the bakery/the housing he built/the concentration camp but once outside in the world, in the streets as a homeless person or at a concentration camp surrounded by millions of Holocausted beings waiting to be honored and mourned, it was less about clean cut control. No bowing and silent entering and leaving the dokusan/darshan room. Outside, things get messier, more chaotic, more human and scary. But the intention the same as the one for those who sit sit sit: it was to cut through the conditioning and fear and veils we all swim in to make way for wake-up-Love.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">He thrived in these atmospheres and that is why I am so taken with his sadhana...how can people put themselves as leaders and organizers in these atmospheres of care-giving/danger etc. That equals taking care of people who are crying/dirty/smelly/needy and HUNGRY!!!! He talks about wanting his students to become fearless on the streets, become fearless at the Camp because the many, many people on sesshin present/act mixed up and messy and guilty and chaotic and angry. He talks about the camps/the bakery/the streets/the homeless suspension of safety which invites his student into the fearful unknown BUT like zazen, breaks the shell in a way that sitting can and does, but when it occurs at the Camp or the street or the bakery, it does it with bravado that does not stink of zen. Walking the tightrope over the Grand canyon is Bernie's way.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I think of Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Padre Pio, the Berrigan Brothers, Maryknoll Nuns/Priests and others willing to touch the holy via the unkempt, the smelly, the needy, the hungry. Bernie talks in many of his interviews about being called a social working Catholic because his social justice practices smell of Catholic practices that bring comfort/healing/housing/food/food kitchens to the unloved/starving etc. And he mentions that he was a forerunner in the Zen world of practitioners who once were encouraged to sit, sit, sit but NOW are encouraged to reach out and do and not just sit. Joan Halifax, P<span>eter Matthiessen</span> are only two of his many lineage holders. And their practices are a mix of cushion/non-cushion.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">BERNIE GLASSMAN thanks for being willing to get dirty and literally "not know" when on the streets practicing homelessness; Bernie thanks for teaching that it is mind blowing/enlightening to not know where to find a place to shit. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Linda Mary Montano 2018 November.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><br /></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-28641426319721470212018-11-24T10:23:00.002-08:002018-11-24T10:23:34.084-08:00SHORT BIO<span style="background-color: orange;">SHORT BIO</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Linda Mary Montano.</b> It seems I was born performing according to my Mother and began acting as Chicken Woman in the 70's. I took all of my issues/problems/traumas/questions/secrets/dissociative personas to the performance world where I showed myself what was happening to me by acting things out!!! That way I could "understand/learn/heal." Performance Art is my medicine , my drug of choice, my language and I teach it, write about it and you can find 61 free videos of my thinking on you tube. Free! lindamontano.com and lindamontano.blogspot. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-24795274214907940822018-11-24T10:20:00.002-08:002018-11-24T10:20:23.451-08:00DAD ART PERFORMER DESCRIPTIONS<div><span style="background-color: orange;">DAD ART PERFORMERS DESCRIPTIONS</span></div><div><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /></div><div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: DANCE OF LIFE: YOU WEAR DANCE CLOTHES, NICE HAIR, EARBUDS WITH 2 EAR BUDS ONE FOR U ONE FOR DANCING WITH YOU. MUSIC: PLEASE DOWNLOAD JACKIE GLEASON MUSIC FOR LOVERS FROM YOU TUBE. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: WATER HEALER: PLEASE CREATE A LOW IMPACT HEALING ACTION WITH WATER. SHOULD NOT BE MESSY... PEOPLE COME TO U AND U USE WATER AS A VEHICLE. BLACK CLOTHES NICE HAIR RED LIPS. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: CHOIR LEADER. YOU STAND NEAR/BY ME AS I SING AND AFTER EACH OF 7 SONGS YOU LEAD THE AUDIENCE IN THE GLAND SONGS. PLEASE PRINT OUT 7 PAPERS WITH THE 7 GLANDS MAKE SURE TO MAKE LETTERING BIG AND USE THE NUMBERS 1, 2, 3 ETC GLANDS ARE: 1. OVARIES/TESTES 2. PANCREAS 3. ADRENALS 4. THYMUS 5. THYROID 6. PINEAL 7. PITUITARY ...YOU WILL REHEARSE AUDIENCE IN THYMUS BY HOLDING UP THAT PAPER AND SINGING THAT ONE ONCE AND THEN ONCE WITH THEM. TO LEARN THE GLAND SONGS GO TO NURSE NURSE YOU TUBE OR 7 SONGS FOR 7 GLANDS ( THAT MIGHT BE PULLED OFF U TUBE, NOT SURE)) WE ALSO CAN REHEARSE ON PHONE 845-399-2502..YOU CAN ALSO LEARN FROM INTERACTIONARAM VIDEO BELOW. YOU NEED A CHAIR NEAR MY CHAIR. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">: SECRETARY TO DEATH. YOU WEAR A BACK WARDS DEATH MASK. AT UR INTRO YOU INVITE PEOPLE TO COME TO YOU AND DICTATE ANYTHING THEY NEED TO SAY ABOUT DEATH TO YOU AND YOU WILL WRITE IT DOWN. YOU PROVIDE PAPER(START RECYCLING PAPER) OR IF U HAVE A PAPER CONCEPT YOU WANT TO USE. MAKE SURE U BRING SOMETHING HARD TO WRITE ON BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO A TABLE FOR YOU TO WRITE ON AT THE SITE. KEEPING IT LOW TECH. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">MC: YOU WILL BE THE MC. PLEASE MAKE A NICE SIGN TO SAY MC ON YOUR CHEST OR BACK...SHOW ME VIA EMAIL BEFORE THE DAY. CLOTHES BLACK. BUT AS MC YOU 2 SHOULD HAVE A DISTINGUISHING HAT???OR WHAT?? SOMETHING? PLEASE HAVE A WHISTLE..EVERY 12 MINUTES YOU USE THE WHISTLE AND BLOW IT, EACH TO INDICATE WHEN I WILL SING. ALSO YOU WATCH EACH OF THE "STATIONS" AND ANNOUNCE WHEN A PERSON COULD " IF YOU WISH YOU CAN GO TO THE WATER HEALER" OR "IF YOU WISH ONE OF THE LISTENER CHAIRS IS EMPTY" ETC</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> ANGEL YOU WEAR ALLLLLLLLLL WHITE CLOTHES. FLOWY IF POSSIBLE. MAKE SURE U KEEP IN TOUCH AND SHOW ME YOU WEARING YOUR CLOTHES ON EMAIL PHOTO...(ON THE EMAIL) NICE NICE HAIR...FLOWERS IN HAIR. I BRING THE WINGS. YOU FLY AROUND. BLESS YOURSELF ALOT.....AND WHEN FEEL MOVED FLY AND BLESS OTHERS. MAKE SURE YOU STAND IN BACK OF ME DURING THE SONG YOU LIKE BEST AND BLESS ME AS WELL.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b> : LISTENER: YOU SIT ACROSS FROM AN EMPTY CHAIR. PEOPLE COME TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT DEATH …..PLEASE DONT FEEL OBLIGED TO GIVE <b><i><u> ADVICE </u></i></b> JUST LISTEN...AND BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE. YOU CAN ASK, DO YOU WISH ME TO SAY ANYTHIGN ...OR SOME WAY OF CONNECTING.. I GUESS SAYING I'M SO SORRY...IS GOOD? LETS CHAT . CALL ME IF YOU WISH .WEAR, ALL BLACK GREAT HAIR, OR WIG.. RED LIPS...</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> YOU 2 WILL BE ONSTAGE. BLACK CLOTHES SUNGLASSES. DURING THE PERFORMANCE CAN YOU AND RICARDO PROVIDE VERY VERY VERY LOW IMPACT RATTLE(EGG?) OR NICE BELL OR CHIME? YOU DESIGN A PROCESSION AT THE END ( AS YOU ENTER STAGE YOU INVITE ALL TO COME OUTSIDE AT END TO BURN THE LETTERS TO DEATH) YOU GO TO STEPHANIE, HELP HER GATHER THE LETTERS AND START THE PROCESSION FROM THERE ALONG WITH STEPHANIE.. YOU AND RICARDO BRING A METAL BOWL AND MATCHES...ALSO SOME PERFORMATIVE WAY TO LEAVE THE SPACE AND MARCH OUTSIDE ..I HAVE USED THE SONG I'LL FLY AWAY AND YOU CAN DO THE SAME IF YOU WISH????OR WHAT EVER YOU WISH. IF YOU WANT CAN INCLUDE BANNERS???? CAN SING ILL FLY AWAY????LOW AND SOFT??? ANGEL ACCOMPANIES YOU..</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> LISTENER: YOU AND VAN TRAN NGUYEN ARE THE 2 LISTENERS : YOU SIT ACROSS FROM AN EMPTY CHAIR. PEOPLE COME TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT DEATH …..PLEASE DONT FEEL OBLIGED TO GIVE <b><i><u> ADVICE </u></i></b> JUST LISTEN...AND BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE. YOU CAN ASK, DO YOU WISH ME TO SAY ANYTHING YOU CAN ASK, DO YOU WANT ME TO HOLD YOUR HAND?? ...OR SOME WAY OF CONNECTING.. I GUESS SAYING "I'M SO SORRY."..IS GOOD? LETS CHAT . CALL ME IF YOU WISH .WEAR ALL BLACK GREAT HAIR OR WIG, RED LIPS</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> VIDEO: E. PLEASE MAKE THE VIDEO PARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT OF THE PERFORMANCE. HAVE A SIGN THAT SAYS PRESS...A REALLY NICE SIGN ON YOUR BODY OR ON YOUR FOREHEAD??? BE "OBVIOUS" MAKE IT A GAME OR FUN...ORRRRRR ETC. </div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="x_x_WordSection1"><div class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-66834799821716917362018-11-24T10:10:00.002-08:002018-11-24T10:10:51.995-08:00AGING AS ART NYC WITH NICOLAS D ESTEVEZ<span style="background-color: orange;">AGING AS ART: NICOLAS D ESTEVEZ: NYC</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">AGING AS ART, NOV 3</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>REHEARSAL 1</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>BREATHE CONTINUOUSLY THE NOURISHING SOUND AAHHHHHH </b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I make art of my life: I'm getting old so am making aging art. Asking for help comes with aging; needing help to drive/pay bills/shop. So tonight is HELP NIGHT COLLABORATION with all of you and me. We are in this together. What do you get as a reward? You can list it on your resume, Collaborated with Linda M Montano, Nov 1 Aging as Art. Thank you</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>REHEARSAL 2</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>BREATHE CONTINUOUSLY THE NOURISHING SOUND OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I wish to thank my dear friend NICOLAS ESTEVEZ for inviting me and showing such grace and courtesy for these many months of planning. And I thank his support team MEGHANA KARNIK, DYLAN GAUTHIER and JP ANNE GIERA for all of their help. Please think of someone who has been kind and helpful to you recently. And remember also, Billy X Curmano is in the house.</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>REHEARSAL 3</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>BREATHE CONTINUOUSLY THE NOURISHING SOUND OF YUMMMMMM</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I thank you all for coming via bus/subway/car/foot/bike/taxi/lyft/uber. You brought your entire body with you. (BODY CHANT)</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>REHEARSAL 4</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">My video Nurse Nurse playing here in the gallery, honors all CNA's who feed/change/toilet/medicate/talk with sometimes 45 nursing home residents a day, 8 hours a day . I want to be so kind to them if and when I go to a nursing home so my art now is to clean out my anger, my privledge, my fear of death, my entitlement to food and water when I want it. So I practice 2 kinds of ways to call the nurse NURSE NURSE and then the kind compassionate way NURSE NURSE. I will sing a few stanzas from the song NURSE NURSE. And as I sing, please collaborate by calling out the loud way and the soft way..NURSE NURSE, NURSE. Thank you.</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>PERFORMANCE</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We will now play the tape My Mother Artist Teacher Friend. As the microphone please feel free to collaborate by calling out your mother's name and adding <b>PLEASE FORGIVE ME, I FORGIVE YOU. </b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>DANCE OF LIFE</b></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 21.33px;"><b><i><u>PLEASE STAND. PLEASE STRETCH. PLEASE FEEL LIFE. AND IF YOU LIKE, SHARE A DANCE WITH LINDA AS BOB.</u></i></b></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><b></b><b></b><i></i><u></u><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-15318547199660966262018-11-24T10:07:00.002-08:002018-11-24T10:07:48.204-08:00STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: MOST IMPORTAANT MEETING EVER<span style="background-color: orange;">STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: MOST IMPORTANT MEETING EVER</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">She-he-it-they came from probably the most important meeting of her-his-its-their life and even though</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">this sacrosanct and totally super sweetness song is the first sound she heard as she-he-it-they</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">came from the Rectory, she-he-it-they bowed to syncronicity as an Angel boy-her-him-millennial who she-it-he-they</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">stopped on the street responded as she asked..………."What is that music???" She-he-it -they knew it was about</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Heaven because she-it-he-they was IN HEAVENYLY BLISS from the miracles that were in the aire. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The boy-angel-sweetness-innocent looking-millennial took out his I'm sure smelling like honey ear bud, </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">listened for 3 seconds and said to her-him-it-them:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, LED ZEPPLIN. "</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-46039585058421610652018-11-24T09:58:00.003-08:002018-11-24T09:58:44.627-08:00LINDA MARY MONTANO/NICOLAS DUMIT ESTEVEZ: ADDICTION INTERVIEW<div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: red;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><u><span style="background-color: red;">QUESTIONS FROM NICOLAS DUMIT ESTEVEZ TO LINDA MARY MONTANO 2018</span></u></i></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">1.<b>NICOLAS</b>: Dear Linda, I thank you for agreeing to do this Q&A. I just came across the Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous' (S.L.A.A.) book at Esalen Institute's free library, and I thought immediately about your 12 steps. Last year I was reading from the A.A.'s book<span> </span><i>Twenty Four Hours a Day</i>. I was not surprised about you being ahead of the times, and so I am eager to ask about art and addiction before anyone else's does? Can one get addicted to art the same one can get addicted to sex, love, alcohol, gambling, shopping, cell phones...the list is endless.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>LINDA</b>: first I want to post the 12 STEPS right here, right now.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divRplyFwdMsg"><div><br /></div></div><span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>12 STEPS OF PERFORMANCE ARTISTS ANONYMOUS by LINDA MARY MONTANO</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">(All steps to be read in a whisper or slurred voice.) </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 1. We admitted that we are powerless over Performance Art and that our lives had become unmanageable.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 2. We came to believe that an art greater than ours could restore us to sanity.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 3. We made a decision to turn our will and loves over to the care of the Higher Artist as we understood that artist.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 4. We made a searching and fearless inventory of our past performances.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 5. We admitted to the Higher Artist, ourselves and another person the exact nature of our past performances.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 6. We were ready to have the Higher Artist remove all of the defects of our art/life.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 7. We humbly asked the Higher Artist to remove our shortcomings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 8. We made a list of audiences we had offended and critics we had outraged and became willing to make amends to them all.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> 9. We made amends and apologies except when to do so would injure them or others.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we had foolish performance ideas/concepts, we promptly admitted it and didn't do that performance.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">11. We sought through silence to improve our contact with the Higher Artist as we understood this Artist and asked to know this Artist's will. We also asked for the opportunity to do their Concept, not ours.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">12. We tried to tell other performance artists about these principles and practiced them in every aspect of our art/life. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><div><b>NICOLAS</b>: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Can one get addicted to art the same one can get addicted to sex, love, alcohol, gambling, shopping, cell phones...the list is endless.</span></div><div><b>LINDA</b>: When art is not a call from the heart and soul to the hands and mind, it becomes a commodity and game of one up-woman-ship.And what follows<span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>i</span><span>s an addiction. What is an addiction? Let's see what Wikipedia says:</span><br /><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.93px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 6.96px 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span>Ad</span><b style="line-height: 22.28px; margin: 0px;"><span>diction</span></b><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_disorder" id="LPlnk906394" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Brain disorder"><span>brain disorder</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>characterized by compulsive engagement in<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system" id="LPlnk679583" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Reward system"><span>rewarding</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>stimuli despite adverse consequences.</span><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, a biological process – one which is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus – is the core<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology" id="LPlnk658299" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Pathology"><span>pathology</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction.</span><span>The two properties that characterize all addictive stimuli are that they are<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_reinforcement" id="LPlnk515438" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Positive reinforcement"><span>reinforcing</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>(i.e., they increase the likelihood that a person will seek repeated exposure to them) and<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_reward" id="LPlnk735067" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Intrinsic reward"><span>intrinsically rewarding</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>(i.e., they are perceived as being inherently positive, desirable, and pleasurable).</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.93px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.28px; margin: 6.96px 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span>Addiction is a disorder of the brain's<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system" id="LPlnk184349" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Reward system"><span>reward system</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>which arises through<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptional" id="LPlnk513114" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Transcriptional"><span>transcriptional</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_mw-redirect" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic" id="LPlnk1142" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Epigenetic"><span>epigenetic</span></a><span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>mechanisms and occurs over time from chronically high levels of exposure to an addictive stimulus (e.g., eating food, the use of cocaine, engagement in sexual activity, participation in high-thrill cultural activities such as gambling, etc.).</span></i></div>And may I add, exposure to the 'high thrill cultural activity " of making PERFORMANCE ART??? High thrill events produce chemicals like dopamine and to tons of other good inner juices because the artist does and does and does these high thrill performances not for ART'S-SAKE but for the pleasure that comes from the dopamine and good-feeling other chemicals. So art becomes not a language via culture <i>BUT A DRUG</i><b>.</b></div></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">2. <span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS: </b>What was in your mind and heart at the moment of developing the 12 Steps of Performance Artist Anonymous?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>LINDA</b>: Why not? There is alcoholism in most families, mine included and I found this a transforming "way" to address the shame of that. Plus, I always loved the economy of the AA-12 Steps and how related they are to the 10 Commandments and the fact that the meetings are FREE and HIGHER POWER centered PLUS they have a very high success rate. I belong to a prayer group that meets in a 12 STEP meeting room and their rules and regs are 12 STEP based so that might be a reason? Not sure, but I do know that I was becoming a PERFORMANCE ARTAHOLIC and needed some self correction, some art commandments , some bridles on my art-greed and inclination to do more, perform more, publish more, Facebook my successes more, be liked by other artists more, be more and more art-brilliant on a daily/hourly basis. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">3.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Can you talk about your use of the term Higher Artist in your steps? I know that A.A. and S.L.A.A. talk about a Higher Power, whom I understand as God.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: How totally self centered/conceited/filled with pride: how arrogant we can become as artists, as miniature GODDESS/GODS parading around Performance Art festivals and Documentas and Museums, having been sent pre-paid plane tickets and given hotel suites (not really suites) for a week or more!! How tempting it is to become self-satisfied and arrogantly privileged JUST because Performance Art is a language of the Divine and the/me artists sometimes think they/I am/ are Divine!!!! (We are, but that's a whole other theological chapbook, not meant for here.) So by talking about Higher Power in my 12 STEPS, I am reminding myself to be careful because Performance Art is SO, SO, SO hot and global and wanted and thirsted after and commodified and taught in Universities and Instaagrammed to ad nauseum...that it is easy to get into and under the spell of POWER AND HOW GREAT NOT THOU BUT HOW GREAT I ART!!! (AM)!!!!!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">4.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>: When you talk about performance in your 12 steps, does this term refer to life, as in performing life itself or does this refer specifically to performance art?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: They spill over into each other. Right now staged performance art is the sought after<b><i><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>must have</i></b>. When life becomes enough, we will find a way to commodify and conquer "life." We are carnivores and conquerors of all we think, do say, dream, create. We muscle through. Plus we will find ways to make lots of $$$$$$$$ from it. From life, that is.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">5.<b>NICOLAS</b>: From my own personal experience I can say that art can get out of hand. Evidence of this manifests in one's health or dis-ease, relationships or breakups, and state of mind and heart. Are your steps a reminder of the imbalance in which art can thrust us?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: Why not? Why not burn out? And worse, health wise? We performance artists deal with and "court" danger, self mutilation, stress, ritual, storytelling, social sculpture, art-life, endurance, androgyny, objectification, consciousness, body politics, exaggeration, fear, chance, the unpredictable, vulnerability, audience interaction, autobiographical disclosure, self harm, chaos, risk, subversion, shamanism, magic and beauty. Wouldn't that stress out the best of us? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">6.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>I am trying to close my eyes and see how humbleness and art can come together. There is so much emphasis on competition and might in the arts, at least in the art market, which is certainly a pyramid. Only a handful are meant to make it to the top. Can art and humbleness coexist?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: Even if we were to fly to a desert hut, a hidden cave, a private hovel, a solitary cellar, a storage container with the door locked we would still COMPETE! Only then it would be with ourselves. How many prayers did I do today? Oh SHIT!! I only meditated 18 hours, I guess I will have to stay up all night and I know that...……….(fill in the blank) has probably meditated (made more art) than me so I better up my game. Human nature. Art nature. And don't get me started on art magazines/grants/ money/exclusion-inclusion and performance art!! </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">7.<b>NICOLAS: </b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Can you tell me about a performance that you did in the past for the College Art Association and for which you publicly apologize to another person?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: I'm going to be 77years old in January 2019 and for the love of God, I have NO IDEA what you are talking about Nicolas. Plus my website is untranslatable so I couldn't find that reference even if you paid me for doing this interview!!!!!!!!!!! ((Now that we are talking freely and transparently about $$$$$$$$. LOL)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">8<b>.NICOLAS</b>: Sanity. After two decades of working in the arts, the word sanity sounds like a balm. Where do you find sanity? You have been working for more than four decades, so I can only imagine all of the experiences that you must have had, good and not so good ones. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>LINDA</b>: Age is a great healer. I have developed a<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NO</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>BUTTON because I just don't have the energy or interest or ability to DO, DO and more DO. I say NO to lots of things and I do what I can, not what I think will bring me a stand up audience response! As a result, a new level of appreciation has set in. That is, I am soooooooo happy I can do the little that I can do that I am appreciating art-life MORE! It is now TANTRA -ART- TIME for me. That is I DO it slow, do it easy, am nurtured by it and ENJOY! It is NOT about the lime light or the power that comes with recognition or the applause from the world of art. Aging and art are a good combo. Plus once you really look old, people stop vibe-ing competition because they know I am going to die sooner than them so they are more respectful!!!!!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">9.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Artists as creators. This is a concept that I am struggling with. If everything in the multiverse has been created, what is our role as artists? I keep thinking about the Higher Artist, the one from whom all has emerged or emanated. I have recently come to understand of my role as a mere conduit for this Higher Artist or Power. What are your thoughts about this?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: Maybe we will open that monastery some day???? Get us a grant, find the building????</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">10.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>I want to return to the concept of art and addiction. Seriously. Sometimes I ponder about this and think about how art can be a cover up for some of the situations we have to face in life: illness, aging, older parents, financial issues, mental health, depression. Art, like work or alcohol, can become an escape to coming face to face with some of the challenges just mentioned. Can you please help me see through this question?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA</b>: Anything that keeps me focused on the PRESENT MOMENT and out of the prison of my totally messy/harmfully vile/dangerous/sad/toxic past, is a good thing. A good escape. That's why I love art. It does that. It provides a HERE-NOW focus. Just be careful so that the escape doesn't become a prison too. More of us should go and live in India and Japan where PRESENCE is honored. Where art and life are ONE. We are western trained into pushing and conquering!!!! There, there is not the same kind of PUSH. More of a non-muscled melting. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">11.<b>NICOLAS:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>I wonder what happens when we have a healthy relationship with art? How does this art look? How does it feel?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA:</b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>It looks like when someone moves to a small town and isn't recognized for the<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ARTISTE</i><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>that they are!!!!!! It is a hoot!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">12.<span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NICOLAS</b>:I thank you so very much for your teachings, your love, your visions. You have been a source of inspiration for me as well as for generations of artists. You have taken so many risks and you continue to reinvent yourself over and over in ways that talk about healing. I was wondering if you can end this Q&A with an art prayer? Much love to you, Nicolás</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>LINDA: </b><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>"<b><i>The main function of the shaman is to restore balance in their community. Shamans conduct blessings, rituals of protection, hunting magic, rain making divination. They also cure sicknesses that have spiritual causes. Shamans are also the caretakers of traditional culture, with their knowledge of ancient traditions. Their counsel has been sought throughout ages.</i></b>" AMEN.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Times,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">From a source I forgot to note. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; 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background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg"><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: orange;"> <b><i><u><span style="font-size: 21.33px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21.33px;">MOTHER EARTH SONG</span></u></i></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Linda Mary Montano 2018</span><br /><b></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u><b style="font-size: 16px;">MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS, </b><br /></u></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS, </u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>YES YOU ARE</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS,</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u> PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><u><b>PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS</b><br /></u></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>YES YOU ARE</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">P</span> IS FOR HOW PRETTY YOU ARE,</b><br /><b></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b> PRETTY YOU ARE, PRETTY YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>P IS FOR HOW PRETTY YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">R</span> IS FOR HOW RESPECTED YOU ARE</b><br /><b></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>RESPECTED YOU ARE, RESPECTED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>R IS FOR HOW RESPECTED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">E</span> IS FOR HOW ENERGY FILLED YOU ARE,</b><br /><b></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>ENERGY FILLED YOU ARE, ENERGY FILLED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>E IS FOR HOW ENERGY FILLED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">C</span> IS FOR HOW CARING YOU ARE,</b><br /><b></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b> CARING YOU ARE, CARING YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>C IS FOR HOW CARING YOU ARE, </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u>REFRAIN</u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">I</span> IS FOR HOW IMPERMANENT YOU ARE </b><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">IMPERMANENT YOU ARE, IMPERMANENT YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I IS FOR HOW IMPERMANENT YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">O</span> IS FOR HOW OXYGEN FILLED YOU ARE</b><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">OXYGEN FILLED YOU ARE, OXYGEN FILLED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">O IS FOR HOW OXYGEN FILLED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">U</span> IS FOR HOW UNUSUAL YOU ARE, </b><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">UNUSUAL YOU ARE, UNUSUAL YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">U IS FOR HOW UNUSUAL YOU ARE,</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 18.66px;">S </span>IS FOR HOW SACRED YOU ARE,</b><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">SACRED YOU ARE, SACRED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">S IS FOR HOW SACRED YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; 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letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS</u></i></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</u></i></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS,</u></i></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS</u></i></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></u></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><u style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">YES YOU ARE</u></i></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For Beth Stephens Eco Class UCSC</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Dedicated to Danny Wasko</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-21664819267361121352018-10-29T09:06:00.004-07:002018-11-24T10:08:56.718-08:00( Henry)_______<span style="background-color: orange;">_HENRY</span>___________________________________________________<br /><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qz5miuwweg5i8e/Dad%20Art%20Performance2.mp4?dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qz5miuwweg5i8e/Dad%20Art%20Performance2.mp4?dl=0</a></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; 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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">DA2vdb18</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal" , "segoe ui" , "segoe wp" , "tahoma" , "arial" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(case sensitive)</div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />1.84 GBLINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-85922003901281691132018-10-26T06:11:00.002-07:002018-10-26T06:11:37.387-07:00AGING AS ART & PERFORMING FOR THE DEAD<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16px;">A</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16px;">GING AS ART and Performing for the Dead</span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">An evening with seminal and enigmatic performance artists Linda Mary Montano and Billy X Curmano.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Saturday, November 3, 2018 - 6:30 - 8:00 pm</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Project Space</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor (between 8th & 9th Ave)</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">New York City, NY 10018</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Here’s more information:</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aging-as-art-and-performing-for-the-dead-an-evening-with-linda-mary-montano-and-billy-x-curmano-registration-48254506528</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Using video and interactive performance, Linda Mary Montano and Billy X. Curmano will address their own experiences with aging and dying, culminating in participatory engagement with the audience. Montano sees her body as a canvas, a sculpture that is chiseled by time as she grows older, while Curmano has daringly orchestrated his own funeral in order to perform for the dead, as an act of self-transformation and a rite of passage. Together, these two artists will question the nature of mortality, to both confront and heal unspoken fears and terrors regarding the fear of dying and death itself.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">This event will bring together two of the movers and shakers of the performance art and art in everyday life fields in the U.S. for a participatory engagement with the audience dealing with the presenters’ experiences with aging and dying. Montano sees her body as a canvas, a sculpture that is chiseled by time as she grows older. Curmano has daringly orchestrated his own funeral in order to perform for the dead, and as an act of self- transformation: a rite of passage.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">This event takes place in conjunction with the exhibition As Far as the Heart Can See at EFA Project Space (Sept. 21-Nov 17, 2018). Additional support provided by: Reimagine: End of Life - a citywide event exploring big questions about life and death.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-69558137894649489522018-10-26T05:46:00.002-07:002018-10-26T05:46:45.754-07:00DANNY WASKO TRIBUTE FROM HIS FRIENDS<div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg"><div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>DEAR WASKO FAMILY</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>We would like to send you these letters from some of Danny's many friends and fans.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>May they comfort you in your mourning.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>In art=life.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>Linda Mary Montano</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<b></b></div><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="color: black;"><div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>LINDA MARY MONTANO</b></div><div><b></b><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>I will miss my MISS COTTON of GLITTER very much. Danny was my student at UT and simply incredible and brilliant as you can imagine. He became a life long friend. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Plus he designed and produced my web page for over 15 or 20 years. </span>We visited when he lived in Chinatown San Francisco, we talked many, many hours on the phone when he lived with Pauline Oliveros' mother in Houston and then when he lived in the ware house in Houston. Then he went to live with his family in Houston, a place where he literally came to a forgiveness and realization that life can be re-seen and embraced. One of the projects that he had mentioned was to make a COOKBOOK FOR HIS MOTHER. This wish of Danny's translates as his way of wanting to honor the gifts of his mother and their current friendship. Danny talked always about freedom and living OFF THE GRID. But that was code for a spiritual place that over the years he began to actually achieve. Freedom while living that is. To support himself, Danny created websites for clients and friends by magically gathering enough of us online so that he could live incognito and still maintain his Freedom. He loved creating beautiful websites for all of us and over these years we shared many phone calls about life but mostly about healing. Most recently I realized that Danny was really at a place of acceptance and actual joy given his life situations. He chanted continually and with a commitment to the ability of sound to bring him inner peace. Sound was his practice. It truly brought him INNER LOVE and understanding .<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>Notice the name he chose for himself: Miss Cotton. That was and is my Danny. His light touch, his soft voice and ability to always BLESS, his consideration for OTHERS were his trademarks, his teachings. Oh Danny my Boy-Guru. Glitter on in your COTTON LOVE. ART-Mummie. Linda<br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <b>VERONICA VERA</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Danny Wasko created the site, </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="http://candidaroyalle.org/" id="LPlnk648595" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CandidaRoyalle.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. I know Candice was so pleased. When Candida departed the planet, Danny was so helpful to me in maintaining the site. He was always so sweet and accommodating, efficient and fair. I wish I had taken the opportunity to work with him, for my own projects. His ability to help others represent themselves thru his design talent was an art. Danny was a great collaborator.Deepest condolences to his family and friends.Blessings on his wonderful spirit.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>IONE</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><div dir="auto">Sending love and gratitude for Danny’s caring and loyalty . Fond memories of Houston - love enduring through dimensions of freedom off the grid... IONE </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><b>VERNA GILLIS</b></div><div dir="auto"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto">Danny, I never met you. Your kind voice will remain with me forever. Your superb designs are iconic. Grateful for our connection.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><b>KATHY BREW</b></div><div dir="auto"><b></b><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div>I was fortunate to be connected to Danny through Linda Montano. I needed to have a website for our film about</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>the Italian designers, Lella & Massimo Vignelli. I never met Danny in person…Just communicated with him over telephone</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>conversations and emails. I think he realized it was a high bar to create a strong, beautiful</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>website for these internationally renowned designers. It wasn’t just any old website. And he did more than rise to the occasion — </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>he did a gorgeous job. I was in conversation with him more recently to do a new website for another film I’m almost done with.</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>I received this email from him less than 2 weeks ago. <br class="x_x_x_Apple-interchange-newline" /><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><i>hi - just checking in about this - as I remember I was waiting on you to send me some photos and text. But then you went to Peru. </i><div><i>I have time now so I can get this done pretty quickly. Let me know how we should proceed.</i></div><div><i>thanks - danny</i></div><div><div><span class="x_x_x_Apple-style-span"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-size: 12px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="x_x_x_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>I hadn’t yet responded to Danny, who thought he had the time to get it done pretty quickly. I’m so sad to hear that he has just passed away.</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>My heart goes out to his family and friends and those like me, who only knew him through his work and in this distanced way. Blessings to</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div>his spirit...</div><div><br /></div><div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div><br /></div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><b>RACHEL MARTIN</b></div><div dir="auto"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Danny was sensitive, deeply thoughtful, committed to his art and oh-so-sweet. Although I have known literally thousands of students since he was a Fine Arts student here at UT Austin, he has stayed with me as unforgettable. Wishing him joy and peace now.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div></div><div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_quote"><blockquote class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_quote" style="border-left-color: rgb(204,204,204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5.92px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 7.4px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_m_-1405794229601974557divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"></div></div></blockquote></div><br /><b>STEVE GORN</b></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I knew so little about this precious soul, yet did feel his warmth, and love for creating something beautiful. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Playing music for him this morning as the sun danced on the Roundout creek, I could feel his heart, his softness.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>BARBARA BASH</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Danny worked with me for many years. He was a kind, gentle supportive presence in my life. Then, a week before he died, I had one of those incredibly connecting talks with him. We dropped into a new place of dialogue between our creative souls. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">We laughed, we grieved for this crazy world, we planned on taking a fresh look at my website. He said he wanted to support me in discovering what I really wanted to focus on. After our talk I tried to send out a Mailchimp email based on his tutorial and got mixed up. I called out for help. He responded, “For some reason you deleted the template - I’ve retrieved it.” I wrote back, “For some reason” is a description of my mind these days.” He wrote, “ I’m never going to be able to use that term now without laughing. “ He told me our talk had meant a lot to him. I said that it had cheered and helped me too . I thanked him for his honest nourishing heart. That was a great last contact, full of possibilities. I am so sad . . .</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b>BETH STEPHENS</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Danny was a magical creature whose humor, love and exquisite sense of art and design made so many artists very happy.</span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b>FAUSTO FERNOS</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I remember Danny— Danny was a friend to me and Chris in art school, and we often looked forward to hanging out with him in class.</span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In 1991 we were fascinated with art on the cutting edge, performance and video art.</span><span class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I remember Danny’s video work where he would record footage of himself over and over again until the video degradation made the image into a collage of odd colors and sounds. It was a world at the height of the AIDS crisis, LGBT people were never seen on television, and we felt at odds with a world that was fine to cast us aside. Danny was a rebel. Danny had a wicked sense of humor, and often called out wherever he saw it. Danny was not afraid and was often one of the most bold artists at the time in Austin Texas. </span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b>BARBARA CARRELLAS</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I knew Danny a long long time ago. I had not been in touch with him for years and years. I know he did amazing work and always seemed liked the sweetest, kindest and most creative being. You must be shattered at his passing. I am so so sorry Linda.</span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b>JOSEPH KRAMER</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear Wasko family, </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am sorry for your loss. </span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thinking about Danny makes me smile. I first met him through Annie Sprinkle and Linda Montano. He and I became friends soon after he moved to San Francisco. He assisted me in my business with a website and six amazing DVD box covers. He was fun to work with which is a requirement for me in my business. He often house sat for me in Oakland when I was traveling. He said he liked getting away from his cramped quarters in San Francisco. Danny will remain in my thoughts and memory. </span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></div><b>ANNIE SPRINKLE</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #003000;"></span><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div>Dear Danny Wasko Family </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Greetings from San Francisco on this sad day, the day after Danny has left his body behind. I’m grateful beyond words that Danny called me from the hospital last night and I had a chance to tell Danny I loved him and heard him say he loved me the night before he passed on. He was a cherished friend, and that call was such a blessing! But the bigger blessing is that Danny didn’t suffer through any painful surgeries, traumatic strokes or things like that. His big beautiful heart just needed to stop ticking. Now he is free to fly and be with us all in spirit as a giddy cherubic angel watching over us. He was a very wise and spiritually evolved being. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Several decades ago I met Danny at Linda Montano’s University of Texas class when Linda Montano was a professor, he was a student and I was there as a visiting artist. Danny’s altar ego “Miss Cotton” did a beautiful performance art piece and I loved him right away. He was ahead of his time. His humor was wry and clever, and he radiated joy and play. Danny became my Webmaster for over twenty-five years. Not sure exactly how many years, but a lot. He always made me look good which helped me not only make a living but propelled me into a successful art career. I’ll fondly remember the many days that I would go to his apartment in San Francisco’s Chinatown and he would help me with my computer and we would do design together, with his box turtles watching on. After he moved back to Texas, I tried to use some other local professional webmasters but no one was anywhere near as good, and I’d have to call Danny to redo their designs and technical messes. Danny and I worked remotely until now, and the websites we made together, and the sites he made with many of my friends and colleagues will live on, and our collaboration in a sense will continue. I learned so much from him. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">As you know, Danny was so incredibly talented. Sometimes he’d email me self-portraits he had created in Photoshop. They were brilliant and made me smile and delighted me. As a big bear of a man, with a Buddah belly, he was a pioneer in body positivity—mostly online. With his self portraits, which were an inspiration to me and many others around the world. He was always working on bettering himself, on body image issues and self-acceptance. Our society is downright cruel in regards to people with large bodies. It’s not easy—I know </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">At times, my life partner Beth and I tried to help Danny create the life he dreamed of when his life felt stuck and hard. I’d give him tarot card readings over the phone. He could phone me anytime day or night to share his thoughts and feelings, but never took advantage of this. He always said he wanted to buy a camper and live in it. He wanted to come spend more time back in California. Beth and I offered to let him come live in our camper in the redwood forest for as long as he wanted. Beth is an art professor at UC Santa Cruz, so we have a little house in the redwood forest nearer to the university. But alas, he said our camper wasn’t going to work for him, as he liked to work lying in bed on the floor. We had hoped he would come out and work for us a lot more, and we could help take care of him He was in popular demand. Everyone wanted him! He worked for some world class, internationally known and highly successful artists. These artists include: Pauline Oliveros, who is considered the mother of experimental music akin to John Cage; Linda Montano of course (my art/life mentor), who completely adored Danny and Danny adored her. They were very, very close and Danny made her the most beautiful website ever. He was a wonderful collaborator and worked on a very high professional level. Danny also worked for several important non-profits, such as Center for Sex & Culture, and Feminists for Free Expression. He made a website for the pioneering and talented film director, Candida Royalle, considered the mother of feminist erotica, a true legend. Danny had a “sex positive” attitude, which made him a popular Webmaster for those of us making art that had some risqué content. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">As you certainly know, Danny was an accomplished computer technician genius. He could manage computers and networks and passwords and upgrades and all that complicated stuff with ease. He had to redo my website a couple times, to keep up with the changing technology, and he was always learning what needed to be learned. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">When Linda told me that Danny wanted to design a cookbook with his mother’s recipes in it, it brought me to tears. It’s a real pity he didn’t get to do that cookbook because it would have been the most beautiful and artistic cookbook in the world. His family was so important to him. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">So thank you Danny’s family for all you did for Danny to support him, so he could support so many of us. When he went “off the grid” it was a bold move, but came with many challenges. Still, Danny didn’t complain that much, to us at least. Somehow he maintained a mostly positive attitude.in spite of the challenges</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">Linda had the great idea of Beth and I putting some of Danny’s ashes into our camper and we can take some of his ashes and sprinkle him in a few places we think he’d like, such as in the Pacific Ocean, in our garden, and San Francisco. We know that this will honor his spirit and art-life-camper dreams!!!</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">We hope the gift box of fruit and nuts that Beth, Linda and I sent is nice. Please know it’s a very small token for you to know of our great love and gratitude your wonderful son, brother and uncle, Danny Wasko. Blessings and hugs all around. </div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"> Wishing you good things.</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"> Annie Sprinkle</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>OCTOBER 20, 2018</b><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-26914061298990431772018-10-26T05:43:00.002-07:002018-10-26T05:44:11.233-07:00SOUND IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><u><span style="background-color: orange;">SOUND IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND</span></u></i></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">LINDA MARY MONTANO</div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u></u><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><ol style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><u>1. CIRCLE BREATHE AND SOUND SITTING</u></b></div></li></ol><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 2. CIRCLE HOW DO YOU FEEL SOUND AND MOVEMENT SITTING</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 3. LAUGHING HO HO HO, HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE, SITTING</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 3A ADD A MEMORY AND USE HO HO , HA HA OR HEE HEE SITTING</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 4. ANIMAL SOUNDS SITTING: CAT, DOG, CHICKEN BEAR, LION, DUCK, BUTTERFLY</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 5.REMEMBER YOUR FIRST SOUND, SITTING</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 5a PARTNER, IMITATE YOUR PARTNERS SOUND, SOME STANDING, MOVING</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 6. GROUPS OF 5 , COUNT OFF 1-5, CHOOSE A TOPIC TO PRESENT TO GROUP</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 6a: HOW SOUND WAS BORN</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 6b. HOW SOUND SAVED THE WORLD</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 6c. THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST LULLABY</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 6d. WHY WE LOVE SOUND</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> YOU CAN BE STORYTELLER, SINGER, DANCER, PROP MAKER, SOUND CHORUS, </u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> AUDIENCE MEMBER, STORY WRITER</u></b></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "calibri" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><u> 7. APPRECIATION FOR MY BREATH, SITTING, GOODBYE</u></b></div><b></b><i></i><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><u></u><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-11058446704768934592018-10-26T05:41:00.001-07:002018-10-26T05:41:39.892-07:00MOTHER EARTH YOU ARE PRECIOUS SONG<div class="_rp_A5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 4px; min-height: 70px; min-width: 200px; orphans: 2; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 964px; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="_rp_p1" style="position: relative;"><div style="-ms-user-select: none; bottom: auto; cursor: default; 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margin-top: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Written for Beth Stephens-Annie Sprinkle Online Eco Course UCSB</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Dedicated to Danny Wasko</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-23335143481163782412018-10-26T05:35:00.002-07:002018-10-26T05:35:26.904-07:00LAUGHING AND CRYING WITH THE PSALMS<div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; 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So Church-r-me. Living across from the Reformed Church, and still a practicing Catholic, although a "reformed" one, I could not pass up the Holy Spirit prompt I internally heard one day when passing that Reformed Church on my way home which is 50 feet away, down the block. The "prompt" was, "Say all the Psalms in this church." I sat with that and pulled it out as a performance in Austin's Vortex Theatre where , for three days, I stood on a 14 foot lift and sang the psalms for 7 hours a day, disguised as Mother Teresa. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">When Suzanne Bennett, curator extraordinaire suggested I do something for her SHOUT OUT SAUGERTIES, I focused on that Saugerties Church as site/a short duration of 3 hours as focus and the Psalms as the narrative. In that way, I get to do the original "idea" but in a less durational form.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">1.Why ask 12 friends to choose "something" they want to sonically express as a laugh or cry?<br />2. Why ask them to come to the pulpit and act as if......a priest/pastor/bishop/deacon?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">3. Why ask them to be blindfolded?<br />4. Why ask an 8 year old child to read the psalms which will be played the entire time?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">5. Why ask a friend to be an angel and bless/direct the experience?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">6. Why am I dressing like a medic and checking everyone's heart before and after they perform?</div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">To maintain an interiority, each performer, for approximately 15 minutes will remember a joy and smile-laugh for the entire time. Or they might cry for a loss? Loss of a person? A country? A freedom? An indigenous people? A healthy body? Or none of the above.</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Coming forward to the holy of holies without having been ordained, without being a man-male, without words of "church" or sermon words is a somewhat transgressive gesture. My need to question or ask, "Who belongs in the pulpit? Who does that?" is so strong that I am asking my friends to participate in this concept and help me unfold into a new theological freedom.</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Focusing-inside and not performing-outside is so important. Feeling and not trying to please or trying to attract attention to anything but inner freedom and inner intention will result in a transformative group/positive brainwave and healing dynamic. Also the juxtaposition of elements is ironically provocative ...the innocent child reading/the Angel flying around and blessing/ the faux medic checking the performers hearts/the non-ordained WOMEN and men freely sounding from the pulpit (I'm talking Roman Catholic here, not all Churches.) …. It becomes a collage of divine absurdity and we all know that absurdity cures depression-isolation-judgment and left brain surety.</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Why ask a child to read the Psalms? Unless you become as little children you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven. Loosely translated that is: stay present/stay innocent sometimes/translate the soul as having the qualities of unstained, untraumatized innocence. That's something we experience when we hear children's choirs or watch facebooks of cats and dogs carefully, respectfully and compassionately minding infants. For me, that is Heaven. Will some of the performers cry because their "soul" feels the Heaven-sound of the young boys voice reading the Psalms? Will they smile and laugh because it is the first good news they have heard in months and it isn't CNN? The experience is interactive and improvisatory and most likely only the performer will know what elicited their sonic response. Also, no pressure is made on the performer to even make a sound if the inspiration is not there to do so. And there are 2 other options: if they are listening to themselves, the child reading , the drone (scruti) playing, they will also have access to a small bell and a jar of rocks(rattle) and these can be used as sounding devices whenever they wish. Simply put: THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, THERE ARE NO WRONG MOVES, THERE IS ONLY PRESENCE. And yes, all black clothing and sunglasses and glam hair.(Wig if you wish and heavy lipstick). It takes the good will of friends to trust that this is something of value for them to experiment with and I thank each of them profusely.</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Angels are symbols of getting out of Dodge, or beings good at retreat. Angels are fabulous at rising above it all, fabulous at billowy wonderfulness, of blessing, of guidance. A relative of mine has written an unreadable Aquinas-heavy dissertation on the ANGELS and I have always found solace in them as images and Deus ex Machina. Chickens are not second best but there is no way that I would stretch the definition or get the permission necessary to include them in this "performance" but they know that they are always welcome in my work.<br /></div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Having lived in an art gallery in 1975 for one week with a fake stethoscope taped to my heart, with my dog Betty, doing a performance titled LISTENING TO MY HEART I feel comfortable resurrecting the heart theme. Then I needed to listen because my heart was breaking. Only art could save me. And a month ago I was taped to a 24-7 heart monitor for unspecified possible "heart issues." Breaking? Age? Of course what happens in my life appears in my art, so here it is, the stethoscope, but now I am the cardiologist and doctor and nurse and I take make believe readings of each of the 12 performers hearts before and after they spend 15 minutes cleaning their own hearts publicly in the pulpit. I will tell them before they go to the pulpit, "Your heart is fabulous, or your heart is kind or your heart is wise" Whatever they wish. And when the angel leads them down from the pulpit, I will say after listening to their heart, Your heart is LOVE.<br />Linda Mary Montano 2018<br /></div></li></ol><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><br /><br /><div style="color: black;"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 944.72px;" tabindex="-1" /><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;"> </span> <div> </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>REHEARSAL</b>: SATURDAY 5PM REFORMED CHURCH SAUGERTIES ACROSS FROM ORPHEUM THEATRE: 173 Main street, Saugerties.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Dear Performers:</div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Psalms will be read on tape by Desmon Conrad-Ferm</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A drone sound will play</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So u will be<b> listening and improvising</b> with those sounds...lauging and crying WHEN U WISH</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">You will have option of ringing a small bell or shaking a rattle of stones in a bottle FOR TIMES WHEN U DONT WANT TO LAUG OR CRY.</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Please find an intention you can use so you feel the time is beneficial to you</div></li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Feel free to wear earpiece and listen to your own "prompt" , story, prerecorded words that will help you laugh or cry.<br /></div></li></ol><div>7.Blindfold optional and if not, wear sunglasses, dark glasses. You need them for going up to the pulpit....so bring the day of the performance. </div><div>See you Saturday,</div><div>Linda</div><div><br /></div><div>Katie, you are on the schedule, Linda</div><div><br /></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-20644677477281650952018-10-26T05:32:00.003-07:002018-10-26T05:32:27.462-07:00KAVANAUGH AND CATHOLICISM<br /><div class="_rp_k1" style="display: none;"></div><div style="display: none;"></div><div aria-describedby="_ariaId_795" aria-labelledby="_ariaId_794" class="popupShadow" ismodal="true" ispopup="1" role="dialog" style="display: none;"></div><div aria-describedby="_ariaId_793" aria-labelledby="_ariaId_792" class="popupShadow" ismodal="true" ispopup="1" role="dialog" style="display: none;"></div><div class="_rp_L5" style="display: none;"></div><div><div><div><div data-reactroot=""></div></div></div><div><div aria-describedby="_ariaId_791" aria-labelledby="_ariaId_790" class="popupShadow" ismodal="true" ispopup="1" role="dialog" style="display: none;"></div><div aria-expanded="false" style="display: none;"></div></div></div><div class="_rp_Q5 ms-border-color-neutralLight" style="display: none;"></div><div style="display: none;"></div><div autoid="_rp_D" class="_rp_B5"><div class="itemPartBody _rp_D5 ms-font-weight-regular ms-font-color-neutralDark" style="display: none;"></div><div autoid="_rp_E" class="_rp_C5" style="display: none;"></div><div><div autoid="_rp_F" class="_rp_C5 rpHighlightAllClass rpHighlightBodyClass allowTextSelection"><div style="display: none;"></div><div><div class="_rp_D5 ms-font-weight-regular ms-font-color-neutralDark" id="Item.MessageNormalizedBody" role="presentation" style="font-family: "wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont";" tabindex="-1"><div class="rps_13a8"><style type="text/css"><!-- .rps_13a8 p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; } --></style><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b><i><u><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16pt;">KAVANAUGH/CATHOLICISM/DRINKING/THE 6TH COMMANDMENT/CONFESSION </span><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16pt;">= ALL OF THE ABOVE</span></u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">LINDA MARY MONTANO 2018</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b>LINDA</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">We are all, in our way, in our own partisan/feminist/moral outraged/non-partisan/end of world frenzy, wondering what smacked us alongside the head during the Kavanaugh debacle! We <b>ALL</b> have opinions, rants, beliefs, facts to fight with so here are mine. And BTW, I'm open to yours. Email me at lindamontano@hotmail.com.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">With 15 years of Roman Catholic training under my belt, I feel just a little bit capable of my take on things. Of course this will make ME feel better to tell you what I think. It will only make you remember that time, that day, that trial and do nothing of any value for your Saturday afternoon, but here it goes, my argument.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;">Kavanaugh was Catholic trained and that means, especially back then, NO SEX ALLOWED; NO MASTURBATION ALLOWED/ NO NOTHING. See what the Catholic Catechism says about the 6th Commandment. This is an edited version. There is even more!!! But I've edited it to just these passages. Read them when you aren't Facebook and Instagram posting. Or texting.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><span style="font-size: 21.33px;"><b>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">THE CATHOLIC </span><span style="background-color: magenta;">CATECHISM, EXCERPT THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><dl style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><dd style="font-size: 13.33px;"><span class="x_text1" style="font-size: 10.66px; font-weight: 400;">You shall not commit adultery.<sup style="font-size: 7.4px; font-weight: 400;">113</sup> <div style="font-size: 10.66px; font-weight: 400;">You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit adultery." But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<sup style="font-size: 7.4px; font-weight: 400;">114</sup> </div></span></dd></dl><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk193494" style="color: #94805c;">*</a> <b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk212701" name="x_I" style="color: #94805c;"></a>I. "MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM . . ."</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk600303" name="x_2331" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk297666" style="color: #94805c;">2331</a></b> "God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">vocation</i>, and thus the capacity and responsibility, <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">of love</i> and communion."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">115</sup></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them";<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">116</sup> He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply";<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">117</sup> "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">118</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk815085" name="x_2332" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk122061" style="color: #94805c;">2332</a></b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Sexuality </i>affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk755328" name="x_2333" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk843838" style="color: #94805c;">2333</a></b> Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">identity</i>. Physical, moral, and spiritual <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">difference </i>and <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">complementarity </i>are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk767295" name="x_2334" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk107560" style="color: #94805c;">2334</a></b> "In creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">119</sup> "Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the personal God."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">120</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk298152" name="x_2335" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk810273" style="color: #94805c;">2335</a></b> Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">union of man and woman</i> in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">121</sup> All human generations proceed from this union.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">122</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk159205" name="x_2336" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk567723" style="color: #94805c;">2336</a></b> Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins. In the Sermon on the Mount, he interprets God's plan strictly: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">123</sup> What God has joined together, let not man put asunder.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">124</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The tradition of the Church has understood the sixth commandment as encompassing the whole of human sexuality. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk345554" name="x_II" style="color: #94805c;"></a>II. THE VOCATION TO CHASTITY</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk364653" name="x_2337" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk289402" style="color: #94805c;">2337</a></b> Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk549578" name="x_2338" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">The integrity of the person</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">2338</b> The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">125</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk130442" name="x_2339" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk539493" style="color: #94805c;">2339</a></b> Chastity includes an <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">apprenticeship in self-mastery</i> which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">126</sup> "Man's dignity therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by mere external constraint. Man gains such dignity when, ridding himself of all slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the means suited to this end."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">127</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk31455" name="x_2340" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk119473" style="color: #94805c;">2340</a></b> Whoever wants to remain faithful to his baptismal promises and resist temptations will want to adopt the means for doing so: self-knowledge, practice of an ascesis adapted to the situations that confront him, obedience to God's commandments, exercise of the moral virtues, and fidelity to prayer. "Indeed it is through chastity that we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were fragmented into multiplicity."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">128</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk232029" name="x_2341" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk317254" style="color: #94805c;">2341</a></b> The virtue of chastity comes under the cardinal virtue of <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">temperance</i>, which seeks to permeate the passions and appetites of the senses with reason. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk146556" name="x_2342" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk486367" style="color: #94805c;">2342</a></b> Self-mastery is a<i style="font-size: 13.33px;"> long and exacting work</i>. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">129</sup> The effort required can be more intense in certain periods, such as when the personality is being formed during childhood and adolescence. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk713925" name="x_2343" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk899753" style="color: #94805c;">2343</a></b> Chastity has <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">laws of growth</i> which progress through stages marked by imperfection and too often by sin. "Man . . . day by day builds himself up through his many free decisions; and so he knows, loves, and accomplishes moral good by stages of growth."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">130</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk787006" name="x_2344" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk486182" style="color: #94805c;">2344</a></b> Chastity represents an eminently personal task; it also involves a <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">cultural effort</i>, for there is "an interdependence between personal betterment and the improvement of society."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">131</sup> Chastity presupposes respect for the rights of the person, in particular the right to receive information and an education that respect the moral and spiritual dimensions of human life. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk667386" name="x_2345" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk154017" style="color: #94805c;">2345</a></b> Chastity is a moral virtue. It is also a gift from God, a <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">grace</i>, a fruit of spiritual effort.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">132</sup> The Holy Spirit enables one whom the water of Baptism has regenerated to imitate the purity of Christ.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">133</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk172599" name="x_2346" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">The integrality of the gift of self</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk879090" style="color: #94805c;">2346</a></b> Charity is the <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">form </i>of all the virtues. Under its influence, chastity appears as a school of the gift of the person. Self-mastery is ordered to the gift of self. Chastity leads him who practices it to become a witness to his neighbor of God's fidelity and loving kindness. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk751984" name="x_2347" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk850505" style="color: #94805c;">2347</a></b> The virtue of chastity blossoms in <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">friendship</i>. It shows the disciple how to follow and imitate him who has chosen us as his friends,<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">134</sup> who has given himself totally to us and allows us to participate in his divine estate. Chastity is a promise of immortality. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Chastity is expressed notably in <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">friendship with one's neighbor</i>. Whether it develops between persons of the same or opposite sex, friendship represents a great good for all. It leads to spiritual communion. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk982092" name="x_2348" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">The various forms of chastity</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">2348</b> All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ,"<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">135</sup> the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk945696" name="x_2349" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk167601" style="color: #94805c;">2349</a></b> "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">136</sup> Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence: </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><dl style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><dd style="font-size: 13.33px;"><span class="x_text1" style="font-size: 10.66px; font-weight: 400;">There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others. . . . This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.<sup style="font-size: 7.4px; font-weight: 400;">137</sup> </span></dd></dl><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk856744" name="x_2350" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk515989" style="color: #94805c;">2350</a></b> Those who are <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">engaged to marry</i> are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk397093" name="x_2351" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">Offenses against chastity</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk507845" style="color: #94805c;">2351</a></b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Lust </i>is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk708075" name="x_2352" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk507508" style="color: #94805c;">2352</a></b> By <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">masturbation </i>is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">138</sup> "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">139</sup> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk288540" name="x_2353" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">2353</b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Fornication </i>is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk937231" name="x_2354" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk870553" style="color: #94805c;">2354</a></b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Pornography </i>consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk824139" name="x_2355" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk386251" style="color: #94805c;">2355</a></b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Prostitution </i>does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">140</sup> Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk855678" name="x_2356" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk921823" style="color: #94805c;">2356</a></b> <i style="font-size: 13.33px;">Rape </i>is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk102665" name="x_2357" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">Chastity and homosexuality</b> </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk794780" style="color: #94805c;">2357</a></b> Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">141</sup> tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."<sup style="font-size: 9.2px;">142</sup> They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk915377" name="x_2358" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;">2358</b> The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk397127" name="x_2359" style="color: #94805c;"></a><b style="font-size: 13.33px;"><a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk426574" style="color: #94805c;">2359</a></b> Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection. </div><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</span></b><br /><br /><b></b><br /><div><b>LINDA:</b></div><div>So that's what Kavanaugh and I were taught. It's a tsunami of <span style="font-size: 16pt;">NO'S. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And these no's do something to you! They make one nervous/suspicious/ bad breathed/anxious/paranoid/ circumspect/devious and morally crafty. It also makes you/me/us want to do the one thing we can do ! DRINK. And in drinking, FORGET/TRANCE OUT/ BECOME TOTALLY UNACCOUNTABLE! Because drinking was never verboten..... delicate, respectful and transparently honorable behavior slipped through the moral cracks. Why? Because even if I/YOU/WE suspected, felt , surmised, remembered that we: </span></div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li>Broke the 6th commandment</li><li>Passed out and DID something "stupid", immoral or unlawful, there was always a DEUS EX MACHINA= <b><i><u> THE SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION. </u></i></b></li><li>Forgiveness was just a Confession away. And in that Sacrament a really magical cleansing of the slate occurred; a cleansing that allowed for a canon law getting out of jail card and no civil backlash. Tell the priest, get forgiven, do it again and because the priest is never-ever able to tell or repeat your private sin, the coast is clear, secrecy intact and the game of rinse and repeat begins again.</li></ol><div style="color: black;"></div><div style="color: black;"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;" tabindex="-1" /></div><div style="color: black;"></div><div dir="ltr" id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="color: black;"><div> <span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</b></span></div></div><div style="color: black;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: black;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;"></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16pt;">WIKIPEDIA SAYS: CONFESSION</span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline!important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><i><span>The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation</span> (commonly called Penance, Reconciliation, or Confession<span>) is one of the seven </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447257662&sdata=B2X2ijbX3MFzDT80Rbc4yzeZps2v3QJCTSgDnF%2B7u94%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk756172" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church" rel="noopener noreferrer" 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black;">sacred mysteries</span></a><span> in the </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEastern_Catholic_Churches&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=ZkVDg2sODbzgGXqmsXJR2%2BUmmiPbZ7xqHwneasmaHOc%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk652087" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="o1hf2UYICg6TtYj8LbuZZmBeN2kYbsfcqItbNh8H4EM7l9MGxR6o62A5hlgGyaTImivzszbJQOcvXGGQKAjXSxtiZvCpUO111k7d1GhqHQFG8RnlZba+9uQAxirUUHuxX1gJWva3KHlo7WztDWhbIfmA1uorb9noViKdXE9ScHI=" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Eastern Catholic Churches</span></a><span>), in which the faithful obtain </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" 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href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSin&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=rGNu7CWHrAdsu0prdZoEg9cekKHefuvJb3JpajZv9WQ%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk172619" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="UomsI8StWEQtXGRxgFB+HBiQIA7VZwqSeZg9nKGQiKweZoHnismS7K1ujZivftKfCnhGGM6TKXoP2bPpjHhFDwJJKfWRg8UEO/kP58OQNqDZpV63xdDjUARvPFEEPHrH2h1nTLoeokzXDLhx4A4ElWpLIGowybu3Dt9cvUDTZkw=" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">sins</span></a><span> committed against </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" 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background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">[a]</span></a></sup><span> By this sacrament Christians believe they are freed from sins committed after </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBaptism&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=VLFyBin6nn7vW%2Bvzlpxip%2F1kFIhdTPuWRausx3rtFNM%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk991718" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="frri8KZMQ2Eo6JmEZ/ChdFd5Hwau6nywGttJkJfK8o+MVTfk/38RTk2cCBtLsIwmgXUkWpnoZMZJXrbgxWUN1fRVJBkuUxtHdcIjDLOZeA+C1Lw6+Qiv/zu3aNvkbCAT7G8yHOGKA5of0cmLbXVVSB6dpJ35uTHTw8zsK2cRW1w=" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Baptism</span></a><span>.</span><sup class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_reference" id="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_cite_ref-2" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 9.26px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 9.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSacrament_of_Penance%23cite_note-2&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=E2Uf4Jn%2B33mCnKvdC2tviRz9TN%2BDJLjBP0R9NVapJ%2FM%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk303368" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament_of_Penance#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="ep/Ts9KeH/orLwH9f6tMm62EuL2RtTKbk/El2sh1dQ9Q21AhBlAtReTh4aarLkrWo0GRM2CEGEhhv8QDE36VjAkmfjSI0U/RMOrIvxZ9n5SAtYNcLmzVYHeiK9+tP821nO6HKcGyncTFjwtXFfzFxU4648Dozj+JabcKFxB0ptU=" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">[1]</span></a></sup><span> The sacrament of Penance is considered the normal way to be absolved from </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMortal_sin&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=Yzw9qYFb9YSQT2OgVTJdUuraf2PuQETaLQ1J8AsQAGw%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk829493" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_sin" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="VZr9UOlq0BKsKsqTbjAuvF8jqE1cGiYvwEbFN1xigpJIlfJ9D5ayvQhu42jh20ztnWW2VIaKwjG8oAr2bezZlOapLGNP4L51WMhmCJEYuoQos6cEBPDl1nCX/vLeKH/h7tjH1w4UzP1Rkzj32RnTOSRZrJx4XjP0Cbb5+MOReVg=" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">mortal sin</span></a><span>, by which one would otherwise possibly condemn oneself to </span><a class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="Verified" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHell&data=02%7C01%7C%7C72103e1de0c44f8ae9dc08d612bccd8a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636716999447413915&sdata=fvXQAyfhXGZBREwpKz45xsHe7hblrroQ9Obv17j7vi0%3D&reserved=0" id="LPlnk786343" originalsrc="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell" rel="noopener noreferrer" shash="o24sjJ/0vmOGqRvtf5/zpvrkPYx3YExoLrZzbGbtFmQyYX3Y8aU4h7NAk8UFAdIe3EbVOXeJ8TURGA7u1OM9re8qo39DmCs8GEgJ1IHShHFPJdzO3cNx1Fu1lTrTyAQhV8aNVmIoy7AbkNVkMC17MvYKtG2eJ4DPAqd236hvOS8=" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Hell</span></a><span>.</span></i></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><i><span><br /></span></i></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>=====================================================================================</b></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LINDA:</span></span></b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">Was KAVANAUGH'S distress at his "job intereview" a Catholic one? An ex-Catholic one? (He is now Episcopalian .) Was he handling the true accusations of Christine Ford as if he had no memory of them because blackout and Confession had forgiven him way back in the 80's? Then he, of course, forgave himself? Encouraged by the culture of secrecy and Catholic bravado to party and drink and attack women because his "religion" did not allow touch or intimacy or "normal" closeness with them, he permissioned himself to man-handle and abuse and take his secret horribleness to the priest so he could be wiped clean and given free reign to be a monster yet again? Let's not get into Secrecy/Confession Clergy Sex Abuse here although i'm straining at the bit to do so.</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><i></i><i></i><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: 16pt;">WHAT NOW: COMPASSION/TRANSPARENCY/ TIBETAN TEACHINGS</span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">SHANTIDEVA: "<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font: 400 13.93px/22.28px sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Strive at first to meditate upon the sameness of yourself and others. In joy and sorrow all are equal; Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. The hand and other limbs are many and distinct, But all are one--the body to kept and guarded. Likewise, different beings, in their joys and sorrows, are, like me, all one in wanting happiness. This pain of mine does not afflict or cause discomfort to another's body, and yet this pain is hard for me to bear because I cling and take it for my own. And other beings' pain I do not feel, and yet, because I take them for myself, their suffering is mine and therefore hard to bear. And therefore I'll dispel the pain of others, for it is simply pain, just like my own. And others I will aid and benefit, for they are living beings, like my body. Since I and other beings both, in wanting happiness, are equal and alike, what difference is there to distinguish us, that I should strive to have my bliss alone?</span>"</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b>LINDA</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">To conclude: The cat is out of the bag. The gig is up. The blindfolds are off. Transparency is applauded. Institutions are de-frocked. Young women and men march. Trees are planted and now<i><u> BLOOM</u></i>. </div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">Thanks Mr. Kavanaugh. I looked for the good in Catholic you and found it in Catholic me. Now put down that beer and go confess <b><i><u>to yourself</u></i></b>. </div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable">I promise I will do the same. </div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"> Linda Mary Montano</div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b>***************************************************************************************************************</b></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><br /></div><div class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_hatnote x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_navigation-not-searchable"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-50439072312933129872018-10-26T05:27:00.003-07:002018-10-26T05:27:28.243-07:006 WEEKS RESIDENCY IN VENICE ITALY: EMILY HARVEY PROPOSALFOR 6 WEEKS EMILY HARVEY PROPOSAL IN VENICE ITALY<br /><br /><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div> </div></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><u><span style="background-color: red;">LINDA MARY MONTANO PROPOSAL FOR EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION: VENICE</span></u></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I have always wanted to be a Catholic Priest and have swallowed the patriarchal misogyny and exclusion of my femaleness my whole life. Seven decades. What </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">a great opportunity it will be to go to Italy as a female artist, to heal my inner urge to teach the Church to <b><i><u>DO THE RIGHT THING!</u></i></b> As a practicing performance</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">artist, I have always used my work as medicine, as therapy, as a way to fix what I felt was never right in both the world and in my personal life. For example,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I wanted to get to know my inner self better so I would often blind-fold myself for up to a week and live in this state of receptivity so that I could de-habituate </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">myself from the world of addiction to the mind. I wanted to feel life, not think it. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">For this one month, preferable in May or Spring, in Venice I will, for 21 days, appear in Catholic Churches as a spin off of Bob Dylan, a male-me, and for </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">those 21 days I will "heal" the 7 Chakras-Glands that I feel have been compromised by the teachings of the Church that were of disservice to my inner wisdom </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and compassion. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">For example, for three days I will make a drawing of the first Chakra and bring those small drawings for 3 days to the Church, hold them and meditate for 7 </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">hours there to heal all first Chakra issues that the Church mistakenly imposed on me and others. I will repeat this scenario with the other 6 Chakras.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">At the end of the 21 day performance, I will burn all 63 small drawings outside one of the Churches, inviting the art community to join me in this cleansing/ re-</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">arranging of my, and maybe our thinking, feeling and believing. Linda Mary Montano March 2017.</div></div></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-83837570861665885352018-10-26T05:21:00.002-07:002018-10-26T05:21:57.380-07:00MY MOTHER VIDEO DESCRRIPTION<span style="background-color: orange;">MY MOTHER VIDEO DESCRIPTION FOR NYC SHOW</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>MY MOTHER ARTIST TEACHER AND FRIEND</i> documents Mildred Kelly Montano's art-life and ability to make art a tool of healing and self therapy. She was my first art teacher and demonstrated how I could do the same, that is, turn my pain into beauty.</div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">During the video, we will all be invited to performatively <b>interact with sound</b> and use my mother's courage as inspiration and a way to create good medicine for ourselves. Transformation is always available.</div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-618550154421552420.post-88910597777790839752018-10-26T05:16:00.003-07:002018-10-26T05:16:59.462-07:00DAD ART PR STATEMENT<span style="background-color: orange;">DAD ART PR STATEMENT</span><br /><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: orange;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: orange;"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span id="x_x_gmail-m_-8879331145412135885gmail-docs-internal-guid-c33037bd-7fff-257c-09cd-b674c3b1efc0"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linda Mary Montano</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a contemporary feminist performance artist and her work since the mid-1960s has been critical in the development of video by, for, and about women. Attempting to dissolve the boundaries between art and life, Montano continues to actively explore her art/life through shared experience, role adoption, and intricate life altering ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. Her artwork is starkly autobiographical and often concerned with personal and spiritual transformation. Montano’s influence is wide ranging— she has been featured at museums including The New Museum in New York, MOCA San Francisco, and the ICA in London, has taught Performance Art, published 5 books and has over 50 free videos on You Tube. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span id="x_x_gmail-m_-8879331145412135885gmail-docs-internal-guid-bbb22e4e-7fff-c5b7-3b7b-ae23b03d059c"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1998 I began collaborating with my father on video: recording our meals, time together. Finally getting to know him. For 4 years we enjoyed this art-life collaboration. After he had a hemorrhagic stroke, I literally hid behind the video camera because I couldn't face my Dad's situation. So for 3 years I recorded it all so I didn't have to see it...feeding/bathing/walking. I mourned his death with my art family, probably around 2007, at Pauline Olliveros' Deep Listening space on Broadway in Kingston and then for some time after that I shared the video-performance, but very rarely because the pain was too raw. But 13 years later, I am able to re-share this experience because of many things but especially because of music! My parents had a band in the 30's and 40's: Dad played drums and trumpet and sang; Mom sang. So when I began focusing on SINGING FOR MY PARENTS AS ART in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DAD ART </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and seriously included my singing in this INTERACTIVE mourning-meditation, the video took on a teaching-tool function and way for me to rise out of debilitating pain and fly toward trance-formation. Also audiences have a chance to interact with over 7 other performer-collaborators and deal with death performatively, which opens a door to REALLY being with Impermanence. We all get it: LIFE IS SHORT. Art makes it spacious and long for a minute. The interactive aspect is what makes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> DAD ART </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a communal ART OF HEARTFELTNESS/COMMUNITY.</span></span><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 21.33px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,"EmojiFont"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span>LINDA MARY MONTANOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17783262934746295586noreply@blogger.com0