Sunday Artist, A Selbe, Linda Montano and Teching Hsieh

I believe that most people will already know who Linda Montano and Teching Hsieh are. Maybe not from their individual works but for their collaboration piece together.

I am bring up this well know artist because I have know about their work for a while but I have never been able to relate it to my work. Now with the project i am working on now I am focusing on the process and documenting a process and that is what makes up my piece visually.

For Linda Montano and teching Hsieh, these two artist were looking for a partner to collaborate with. In 1983, they started a project in which they were tied together with an 8ft rope for one year. They were combining their lives and art into one. Writing it down in words really makes it seem so simple but when you really think about being tied to another person for 365 days in a row, none stop. There is no alone time, no privacy. They describe how there isn't a point to being private, they had to be honest with each other entirely for this to work.

This work is so relivant to the work that i am trying to create now because it is all about the process, there really is no end product. For my images there will be a final images to go with the processes but the process entirely makes up the final image. For their performance piece there was no goal for a final image or result. It is more the enlightenment that comes with completing the task. it is about the challenge.