THE ART ANGEL – PHOTOBOOTH PERFORMANCE ART

PHOTOBOOTH ART Performance Art by Bethann Shannon — PHOTO BOOTH ART/ Performance Art by Bethann Shannon 1986

Wanting to share some Performance Art from 1986 I did in NEW YORK CITY/ Times Square….
100 Strangers Praying & How To Pray
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100 Strangers Praying Photobooth 1986 Times Square

I found myself praying (really praying!) in a photo booth, in NYC, on Times Square, 1986.
I really loved the pictures of me praying and started a series of self portraits. My plan was to take a praying self portrait everyday…but then…
I got curious about other people…

Do they pray?

What do they pray for?

And how do they look when they pray?

I started approaching strangers everyday for 4 months to pray with me.

These are some of the pictures from that series at these links:

http://www.bethannshannon.com

http://www.flickr.com/theartangel/

THE ART ANGEL – Third Thursdays in Pittsfield, Ma – Celebrating Children

(*Yin Yang Man and Omi Omy are registered trademarks & copyrights since 2000)

OH HAPPY DAY! OH HAPPY DAY! OH HAPPY DAY!

A BIG PHAT UNITED SMILE TO AMERICA! YES! OBAMA!

We can’t stop smiling in our home!

Thank you for bringing back that good feeling!

WE LOVE YOU MAN!

My roommate went out & bought 2 American flags this morning &

hung them out for the world to see!

You’ve really made an impact & touched our hearts!

THANK YOU OBAMA!

love,

The Art Angel

YIN YANG MAN

The smiley yin yang is a registered Copyright & Trademark

1999-2009 by Bethann Shannon

THE ART ANGEL ~ Follow Your Heart & VOTE!

FOLLOW YOUR HEART by Bethann Shannon (copyright 2007)

The Art Angel ~ Blue Skies Smiling On The Berkshires, DC, CT, MD…

Looks like GOD! Photo by The Art Angel Bethann Shannon 2008

: Yummy Clouds! Photo by The Art Angel Bethann Shannon 2008

Outside my door in The Berkshires! Photo by The Art Angel Bethann Shannon 2008

More Skies...Photo by The Art Angel 2008

I’m still traveling back & forth from DC to Lenox!

Both places have displayed voluptuous, abundant,

bold, breathtaking clouds and skies!

My head was in the clouds everywhere I went!

I couldn’t stop staring at the sky!

I have some excellent pictures of some excellent skies!

Some say …”Stop & smell the flowers”

I’d like to add…

STOP AND SEE THE SKY!

The sky brings me so much JOY!

I really do live for clouds!

BIG SKY ~ BIG SIGH

The Art Angel ~ Painting Faces on the road!

THE ART ANGEL (Bethann Shannon)

I’m on the road again!

I’ll be back and forth from DC to The Berkshires for the next 3 months!

My friends & family invited me…and since I’ve been depressed where I’m at now…

…some travel will probably be good for my soul!

Eventually, I hope to land in NORTHHAMPTON, MA. I LOVE it there!

While traveling, I’ll be doing some odd jobs, lots of babysitting, working on a video,

tweaking some books, cartoons & safe sex stuff I’m working on

and of course…FACE PAINTING!

WOW! KIDS LOVE GETTING THEIR FACES PAINTED!!!

It’s wild! They will wait in 2 hour long lines…patiently!

It ceases to amaze me!

It gives me great joy to make them sooooo HAPPY from such a simple act!

Well, I’m off and those are my summer plans!

P.S. I may not be writing as often…but I’ll be back!

Have A Happy & Safe Summer!

LOVE

The Art Angel

The Art Angel ~ SMILEY FACE SKY

ALMOST A SMILEY FACE!

I had to take this picture!

I think it’s a good sign when the sky is SMILING!

HAVE A HAPPY & SAFE HOLIDAY EVERYBODY!

WITH LOVE,

THE ART ANGEL

THE ART ANGEL ~ HEAVEN

I love the SKY!

The sky is HEAVENLY!

I live for clouds!

Each sky I see is a work of art, each with a feeling, each with a story…

some filled with intense drama!

Some simply like a storybook!

I find great happiness gazing at the sky.

It almost feels like a longing !

When I was 21 I was a flight attendant for TWA.

It was my favorite job ever…because of the sky !

(and I also love people)…

I was thrilled and excited to be up there! So beautiful!

I found abundant joy in that job…

then I was laid off.

Now, I look up everyday and still think Heaven is just Heavenly!

I paint it when I can and love the painters who paint it well, like Magritte,

and my artist father Joe Shannon…

I started taking daily pictues of the sky this month

and will start a collection of excellent skies!

The 2 places I lived or visited that had the best skies was in

MONTANA, which is called “BIG SKY COUNTRY”…

and ASHEVILLE, NC, called “Land Of The Sky”…

both places had breath taking skies

that put you in a total humble state of AWE!

Third up for me would be San Francisco…

amazing drama with the clouds & fog over Golden Gate Bridge!

OH! THE SKY!

“SIGH”

www.bethannshannon.com www.joeshannonart.com

www.myspace.com/theartangel

THE ART ANGEL ~ YOUTUBE VIDEO

My friend Peter Taussig is making short films about “interesting people/ artists”, and he asked if he could film me… his video about me is now posted on UTUBE ~ THE ART ANGEL

TRY THIS LINK:

www.youtube.com/TheArtAngel

I would post it here… but I’m a Neanderthal with computers & don’t know how!!

THE ART ANGEL ~ Children ~ Let’s teach LOVE!

Let’s teach LOVE to our kids! Not WAR & fighting!

“What the world needs now is LOVE SWEET LOVE!”

Smiling Yin Yang Man T-shirts

are an original design of mine!

(Registered TradeMark & Copyright)

Available at: www.cafepress.com/theartangel

Your purchase will support my winged run for

PEACE, LOVE & KEEPING THE ARTS ALIVE!!!

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!

~ the bottom line is…LOVE! ~