LINDA MARY MONTANO : PERFORMANCE ART AS MEDICINE FOR TRAUMA/ PERSONA AS HEALER

  

LINDA MARY MONTANO  :  PERFORMANCE ART AS MEDICINE FOR TRAUMA/ PERSONA AS HEALER

1960'S:  

CHICKEN AS  ANIMAL TOTEM

LINDA AS CHICKEN LINDA

SOURCE:  BOOK,  ART IN EVERYDAY LIFE

1970'S:

LINDA AS 7 SUCCESSFUL IMAGINARY PERSONAS

SOURCE: VIDEO ON YOU TUBE,  LEARNING TO TALK

1980'S:

LINDA AS INTERNALIZED CHAKRA PERSONAS

SOURCES: VIDEO ON YOU TUBE,  CHAKRAPHONICS

                   BOOK, 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART (ADAMSILVERVT@GMAIL.COM)

1990'S:

LINDA  CLEARING  SOCIETAL TRAUMAS/ILLNESSES INCLUDING ALCOHOLISM APPEARING AS 7 INTOXICATED PERSONAS. RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR DYSTONIA

SOURCES:VIDEOS ON YOU TUBE,  7 STAGES OF INTOXICATION;  DYSTONIA

200O'S:

LINDA AS DOPPLEGANGER OF 2 LIVING AND ONE DECEASED PERSON

SOURCES: VIDEOS ON YOU TUBE,   LINDA AS BOB DYLAN;   MOTHER TERESA'S 100TH BIRTHDAY;    LINDA AS MOTHER TERESA;  LINDA AS PAUL McMAHON.

2010-NOW

LINDA AS AGING WOMAN APPROACHING DEATH

SOURCES: VIDEOS ON YOU TUBE,   DAD ART;   LINDA AND TOBE TALK ABOUT DEATH; BENARES;  PASSING THROUGH;  IM GONNA DIE.

LINDA MARY MONTANO

2021

LINDAMONTANO@HOTMAIL.COM

QUESTIONS FOR SOMEONE IN LATE STAGES OF LIFE; PLEASE EDIT TOTALLY ALL QUESTIONS OR DONT ASK THEM: YOU ARE IN CHARGE. THESE ARE MY UN-EDUCATED AND UN-TAUGHT ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO BE OF HHELP.

 QUESTIONS FOR SOMEONE  IN LATE STAGES OF LIFE; PLEASE EDIT TOTALLY ALL QUESTIONS OR DONT ASK THEM:  YOU ARE IN CHARGE. THESE ARE MY UN-EDUCATED AND UN-TAUGHT ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO BE OF HHELP.

1. MOM/DAD/FRIEND  HOW ARE YOU FEELING?
2. WHAT DO YOU WANT  NOW? IS YOUR LIFE SATISFYING ENOUGH? WHAT WOULD HELP YOU HAVE A BETTER QUALITY LIFE IF THESE TIMES ARE NOT SATISFACTORY FOR YOU?
3. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING FOR YOU?
4. DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN ON YOUR MIND?
5. ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT DYING?
6. HAVE YOU FINISHED YOUR WORK/TIME/LIFE HERE?
7. DO YOU WANT OUR PERMISSION FOR YOU TO LEAVE? FOR YOU TO DIE?  HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT DYING?  
8. DO YOU WISH A RABBI/PRIEST/FRIEND/ANIMAL TO VISIT YOU OR THE CHAPLIN HERE?
9. WE WILL MISS YOU WHEN YOU DO LEAVE BUT WE WILL BE  OK,  DONT WORRY.
10. DO YOU HAVE ANY UNFINISHED BUSINESS? CAN A COUNSELOR OR YOUR CHILDREN HELP YOU WITH THAT?
11. ANYTHING ELSE   MOM/DAD/SISTER/BROTHER/FRIEND?
12.  SHALL I HOLD YOUR FEET?  HANDS? OR JUST SIT HERE? STAND HERE? OR LEAVE THE ROOM?   WHAT DO YOU NEED WITH AND FROM ME? I AM HERE FOR YOU AND  WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR HELPING ME KNOW HOW TO BE WITH YOU. I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.

LAUGH / CRY THE CHAKRAS: WITH LINDA MARY MONTANO

 LAUGH / CRY THE CHAKRAS:  WITH  LINDA  MARY MONTANO

1. FACE CLOSE TO THE  MONITOR....SIT  SO TOTAL FACE  CLOSE ( HELPS WITH INSPIRING AND LAUGH-CRY WITH OTHERS)
2. BRING 2  SHEETS OF  PAPER( PREFER RE-CYCLED .... CAN HAVE ONE SIDE EMPTY)
3. PEN OR PENCIL, SCISSORS 
4. INTRODUCION , EACH PERSON, NAME/WHERE FROM/DO YOU LIKE TO LAUGH OR CRY?  
5. I GIVE CHAKRA INTRO. WE ALL FOLD PAPER/WRITE ON PAPER.....
6. 7 MINUTES UNINTERRUPTED SOUND MAKING  ALL TOGETHER( LAUGH-CRY-CRY LAUGH) USING THE 7 PIECES OF PAPER AS  "PROMPTS." I WILL KEEP  TIME
7. CONCLUSION   
8. MAY ALL BEINGS BE SONICALLY FREE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.  

LINDA MARY MONTANO   2021,  SAUGERTIES  NY

The Glands and Chakras Are Grateful to Annie and Beth

 

Postscript

Linda Mary Montano

The Glands and Chakras Are Grateful to Annie and Beth

Chakra 1: Muladhara. Gland 1: Ovaries/Testes. Intimacy. 

ANNIE and BETH: Gratitude to you both! There are now 455,072,324 young, old, straight, bi, transgender, and celibate folks who comfortably and ecstatically celebrate their sensuality because of you, and in doing so they generate more love for this hungry, hurting planet.

Chakra 2: Svadhisthana. Gland 2: Pancreas. Money. 

Annie and Beth: Gratitude to you both! As penultimate Earth stewards you both fearlessly generate props, costumes, magical objects, and millions of glittery accoutrements that transform environments. With gusto and without shyness, you seek funding to finance these spectacles that ritually and positively change group consciousness.

Chakra 3: Manipura. Gland 3: Adrenals. Courage.

Annie and Beth: Gratitude to you both! Prophets have no limits, and your aesthetic message that everyone and everything has a soul has allowed you to fearlessly, courageously, and radically do everything possible to protect all souls.

Chakra 4: Anahata. Gland 4: Thymus. Love.

Annie and Beth: Gratitude to you both! You have performed enough autobiographical work so that you both feel healed enough to become bigger than your individual selves. Now you can focus on the Earth as a living, organic being in need of attention, transformation, and performative respect.

Chakra 5: Vishuddha. Gland 5: Thyroid. Communication.

Annie and Beth: Gratitude to you both! You walk your talk in simple inclusivity. It is obvious that both of you are secret, private, hidden intellectuals who easily speak the language of the academy, but you both insist on connecting and speaking with and not at all so that the message and people benefit. What a wonderful strategy for activists of love who sidestep away from self-aggrandizing power so that the Earth and others can shine.

Chakra 6: Ajna. Gland 6: Pineal. Intuition.

Beth and Annie: Gratitude to you both! You see what needs to be done and seed your vision to pioneer a path that will positively change the entire universe. 

Chakra 7: Sahasrara. Gland 7: Pituitary. Joy. 

Annie and Beth: Gratitude to you both! Keep leading us into the waters so we splash around again like we did before. Keep leading us to nonjudgmental collaborations. Keep leading us to the information that opens our minds to the real truth. Keep leading us to healthy ways to convert pain/evil/distress into fabulous flowers of beauty and light. Keep leading us back to the garden.

BACKSTORY: THE FOUR LINGAMS WITH HAIR: 1995&2021

 BACKSTORY: THE FOUR  LINGAMS WITH HAIR: 1995&2021

During my endurance, 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART, an inner-outer experience of the 7 CHAKRAS as taught by Shri Brahmananda Saraswati of ANANDA ASHRAM,  I performed many exercises designed to bring attention to the inner energy centers of the body. 

One feedback that I experienced was an excelleration of sexual energy in my body . As a result, I drew/sang/sculpted/moved with the energy messages that I received during those 14 years.

The LINGAMS emerged from that time and I found a foundry to bronze cast 7 "tinted" replicas of a penis, which I sculpted in response to the flowing ecstasies.  They reference the SHIVA-LINGAMS of India and my Guru's theological heritage/language, but my interpretation is of course, Western and personal.  

I had them fabricate 7 of them at the foundry where they were subtly patinaed the 7 colors of the Chakras. This is most obvious in the one that still appears green, the Heart Chakra.

In my archive I have rescued the 4 remaining LINGAMS and during the pandemic, "dressed' them and bedded them with hair from my costume collection. They are now cradled in comfort and peace, ready for a new Home. 

My intention is that they remain together, the four Chakras from the HEART, THROAT, THIRD EYE and TOP OF HEAD. And that they are used as reminders of energy in those Chakras. That they become Living Medicine for the new owner. And if you choose, you can take the LINGAMS from their Hair Beds and hold them, and return them to their beds, whenever you wish.

SIZES:

 THEIR LENGTHS: There are 3 of them with long hair. One with short hair.

 BLOND:  36 inches length.  PINK:  26 inches length. BLACK: 26 inches length. SHORT BLACK: 17 inches length.

THEIR WIDTHS:  

All of them are approximately 13 inches wide.

THEIR HEIGHT:

All of them are approximately 6 inches high.

PRICES:

$14,000

plus shipping and handling.

LINDA MARY MONTANO:  lindamontano@hotmail.com. 845-399-2502, between 1-5 NY Time.

                   

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