Lost in Transition (a Visual Conceptual Metaphor for Liminality) 

(aka The Liminal Egg)

Tuesday 11 Nov 25 13:13

Nature astounds to a mindblowing degree, creating a perfect storm of synchronicity in order to facilitate the creation of a visual conceptual metaphor representing Liminality.

I live and work on my friend’s property in California. Everything that is happening around this perfect storm is taking place here. Therefore, she is at the center of the storm, where all is calm. It is through her that I know the person who showed me The Liminal Egg. I buy eggs from this person weekly, and they texted me a video of The Liminal Egg, because it was so unusual, and she knew I would appreciate it.

Turns out, a soft-shelled egg can be caused by a number of factors, including the age of the hen or the lack of sufficient calcium in her diet. These facts are interesting to note but pale in comparison to the state of matter the egg itself exists in. It has been hatched, but it is not fully formed, lacking a hard shell. It exists in the in between, neither as one, nor the other, in the space of liminality.

I am a 2024-2025 Student in the Inaugural Cohort of Luca’s Art School by Luca George of Luca’s Gallery, London (virtual). As soon as I saw the egg, I knew I wanted to use it to create a piece for this month’s project. A visual conceptual metaphor representing Liminality in concrete form.

For the first time, I am witness to the visualization of conceptual metaphor that conveys what it means to be in liminality (the state of being in transition, or the in-beween).

LOST IN TRANSITION (2025)

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Liminality and the liminal space have been a focus of my art since my first Walking Through Liminality (A Pilgrimage to Self) No.1 Tintagel Site-Responsive Environmental Performance Art Documentation project from November, 2019. I have created several other Liminality focused projects before and since, including ones at SCAD Lacoste, France and Nantucket Island, MA. I am currently submitting a proposal to a Live Art Open Call focused on “exploring themes of ‘coastal’, liminality, and edgelands”.

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I added images and video from my new performance/exhibition, The Transmogrification of the Commodification of the Inherent Value of the Ubiquitous,  to my website (link in sidebar)

 

 

Monica Seggos with 

 General Assembly Gallery Director and Curator 

Robbie von Kampen

photography by Jess Hall
 

 

Dudley Moore: "I know that people looking in from the outside would say that I am dissipating my energies and would do better to concentrate on one thing, but I know that I couldn't possibly lead my life any other way".

Clip from a documentary from the BBC archive on Instagram, from Monitor originally broadcast on BBC Television, Sunday 26 Feb, 1961

 

Dearest friends, fellow New Yorkers, Beloved Strangers,

I have not forgotten you. Another year has gone by,

and I just want to tell you that I am closer than ever

to fulfilling my dreams. I have never give up. The thought

of you keeps me going. 

This time next year, 

I promise you, I will have incredible things to share.

lots of love,

Monica

 

 

 To learn, we must not allow ideas to remain exterior to us, but fuse with them until they become part of our existence. When this is done and our dispositions correspond, the soul is able to formulate and make use of them. It comprehends now what it merely contained before.
Plotinus

2 weeks of garbage (checking my carbon footprint)

 

My contribution to

The Disappearing Birds of North America project

by Jen De los Reyes 

The Black-legged Kittiwake, 2024 (Digital collage and text on photograph) 

 

Monica Seggos (London/Los Angeles) is a Greek-American artist focusing on process oriented, narrative based Site-Responsive projects in Environmental, Digital, Performance and Installation Art. In her Environmental Art, she shares her love for the beauty and majesty of Nature. Immersion in the wild is the panacea for all her woes, bringing joy and healing to her life experience. 

 

She believes that birds are emotional support animals.

Monica used to see the Black-legged Kittiwake during her sunrise hikes on the South Shore of Nantucket Island in Winter (especially during high seas on blustery days). The backdrop of the artwork is a photograph she captured of a spectacular December morning in 2021 while on island during the Covid lockdown. She collaged images of Kittawakes from various antique paintings that she found during her research and added an excerpt from the poem “The Kittiwakes” by Celia Baxter.

“Like white feathers blown about the rocks,
Like soft snowflakes wavering in the air,
Wheel the Kittiwakes in scattered flocks,
Crying, floating, fluttering everywhere.

(more artwork from this project upcoming, including videos. Stay tuned!)

 seize the day to seize the morrow

the most beautiful 6 leafer ever 

March Forth

 

 just discovered Galileo's middle finger online! at the Museo Galileo

 

it reminds me of my piece!

til Death do us Part

 

 La Nature Sauvage n'est pas Morte No. 2 (digital collage/painting) 2024

 La Nature Sauvage n'est pas Morte No. 1 (2024) Digital collage/painting

The Big Bang in The White Hole (The Phocells Remix) 2024 Digital Collage/Painting

"Each cell is its own story, dimension, and sign of light and life." Photon Tide

White Holes are believed to exist even though they remain unseen. To me, photons are evidence that at some macro level, White Holes do exist. In the vast reaches of space, it makes sense that, like a photon, a White Hole is just too small to be detected.

The blueprint for our life journey lives in our cells. Cells detect light, and I believe our cells are constantly encouraging us to move towards the light in order to fulfill our destinies.

For my Phocells Remix, I removed the background from "The Cell" and erased all the cells that were not whole. I removed all the color from the remaining healthy cells, and shrank them down to fit in the center of the White Hole. There, they absorb the light. When they are at their peak of brightness, The Big Bang occurs and sends pure healing light out into the Universe. Traveling at the speed of light, the photons reach our cells, giving us life and reminding us of who we are meant to be.

CC0 Photon Tide

Alexander Fury on Galliano for Margiela            Another Magazine

 I promised all those years ago that your lost lives and broken dreams

would not be in vain-that I would never give up 

until mine came true-in memory of you.

Unsouled by the Ensouled of the Unbehaved

 

 My sculpture finally arrived at the gallery after being stuck in US customs since 20 June!

 no word in the English language to describe the soul of a Greek

Now I understand myself. Now I know that in my soul, I am Greek.

 

UnMasqued

 

my Site-Responsive Art practice:

letting the process unfold,

always following the thread wherever it leads,

because art is so much more magical when I don't have a plan

stunning imagery, inspiring story

 

 for the first time, I came to the game for the half time

 

I am working on a concept

for my fashion brand

 

A total work of art, a sumptuous aesthetic journey, a complete artistic creation which, through prodigious efforts, embraces visuals, experience and performance. 

These are the ideals at the heart of the Gesamtkunstwerk. 

Naomi Martin
 

 

Self-Sovereign

 "Self Sovereign", from my genesis collection on KnownOrigin, tells the story of how I became a cryptoartist from being on Clubhouse. If you have ever seen my IRL work, you might wonder how my post-NFT work relates to it, because it is so different. 

 

Photo by Amruta Patil 

This image by Amruta Patil is from "The Broken Heart Repair Shop". I had one + wondered why there wasn't a place to get help. There is a shop for everything eles but!, including a car repair shop, which this is based on. As Nurse Candy I sat down with everyone who wanted to share their story. They shared their deepest woes + at the end I wrote a prescription of how to recover.

 

Photo by Mido Lee Productions

"Self-Voyeur" is a behind the scenes perspective on an Instagram influencer. This body of work explores the monetization + promotion of the image of self-an individual’s obsession with her own image, responding to the societal obsession with the image of other.

Photo by Mido Lee Productions

My installations are immersive. The intention is that the audience is within the space, like being behind the scenes, IN the scene of a film set.

It All Started Here

In Clubhouse, I listened to @CryptoSteveWand @RyanCrucible and @irvinxyz speak on the ethos of the space. I read all the white papers. I realized that my work on the blockchain would be forever.

My Art Studio in the Metaverse 

I knew then that I could only put work on the blockchain that represented permanence. My work would be about my dreams, my imagination + how I see the world. So the work you see is what I hope to be, not what I am, nor what I was.

Me, 2023, by Michelle Pattee

 

sketch for a residency submission that illustrates my Site-Responsive practice

(click image for best view)

 

I’m an artist focusing on process oriented, narrative based Site-Responsive projects that are a fusion of Environmental, Digital, Performance and Installation Art. I graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design at 51 after raising my son as a single mom. At SCAD, for the first time in my life, I learned to have an artistic practice. I was allowed complete freedom in the development of my projects, and, crucially, I was required to research and to document my process. This lead to the development of an artistic practice that dwells outside the scope of traditional disciplines. My works incorporate the use of multiple mediums built upon a foundation of site-responsiveness, storytelling and process. I always ask:  How can I best convey the concept of this work? incorporate multiple layers of meaning? which medium/s? Since graduation, I have continuously created, honing my process and practice and devoting my life to building my oeuvre under challenging circumstances. 

 

 I am born to be talented, and I will come back after all my money is gone

Li Bai

 

 

 

life as a Medieval naturalist

 magical

 

dreaming of a life as a 19th c. naturalist

 

 Nature is my best friend, my companion, my soulmate, my twin flame

 I love birds so much

 

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver

I'll Know

 Just hung Room with a View sculpture

A Site-Responsive, Site-Specific work, Sebastopol, CA

My art practice has multiple dimensions: I am a process oriented, narrative based artist focusing on Installation, Performance, Environmental and Virtual projects. Process is the foundation of my work, while narrative maintains the through line. I am medium agnostic, which allows me to use the mode of expression, materials and processes that best embrace the storyline.

I have spent the last 2 years focusing on building my virtual practice. In the next several years, I will be consciously working on integrating and fusing the various mediums into large scale environments that incorporate all facets of my practice.

 A Room with a View

final project from my artist residency in Sebastopol, CA

stripes + lines

Between Dimensions

on Async Art