Monica Seggos

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Automediality is a key component of my artistic practice.

Automediality is a form of autobiography through media,

in real time, shaped by the media outlets utilized

this journal is one of my media outlets

please see the Automediality & Me page for more information

thank you for following along with me on my journey

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A 6.0 earthquake still on the forecast

from LA Basin to San Diego

through until Monday morning
Hoping for a release towards the East
which would lessen the impact

I am not leaving

it will be all about healing

the art in the upcoming version

will be very joyful

my upcoming installation in Miami,

The Broken Heart Repair Shop,

will be a new version

the first version is called

The Doctor's Office

v 2 is called

A Clean Bill of Health

Always on My Mind (Le Principe du Plaisir)

14 Nov 2018

6.0 earthquake

forecast for LA Basin to San Diego

This show is dedicated to Curator Katie Gass who brought me down to Art Basel for the first time in 2009 (I think!) and who taught me that art was what I wanted it to be. This visit and subsequent ABMB visits were one of the catalysts for enrolling in The Savannah College of Art and Design

This installation was conceived of and shown twice during my last quarter at SCAD. I credit my fellow students and my professor Lanelle Keyes who participated in my installation and showed me the value of my work and SCAD President Paula Wallace for changing people's lives with her amazing school.

Here I am coming full circle. I am over the moon about the opportunity to be able to return to Miami with my own installation. Thank you Brian Whiteley of Satellite Art Show for making this possible.

(I have also shown this installation in Los Angeles with Schelsey of @leiminspace , my first show here in LA❤️ and in Venice with Sunny Bak. I am very grateful to you both! And a shout out Ray Beldner of Startup Art Fair)

I can't go without expressing my gratitude to my son Robbie , my mom, and my friends Beverley and Holly who never stopped believing me and to Rebecca Gardner who first introduced me to SCAD and to Laura Lane McKinnon for all her support while I was in Savannah and much more.

And to you.

I know this sounds like an Oscar speech, but I am not able to take credit for getting here on my own.

photograph by Amruta Patil

Announcing my installation,
The Broken Heart Repair Shop

at The Satellite Show

Art Basel Miami Beach

December 6-9, 2018

Come see Nurse Monica

for a consultation!

I look forward to seeing you there ❤️

(I previously announced my other installation

for this show, but the logistics of the concept

were making it impossible!)

you are never alone

The best indicator in LA

that it's who you know,

not what you know:

no college stickers on anyone's car

Daymond John

The Power of Broke

feeling joyful

is erotic

Angela Lauria
😂😂😂😂😂
truth

I love the way he speaks to heru

Go Beto!

Because a man needs his heart

welcomed to be my freest self

til the end of time

got the tear sheets from Maximum Vengeance

for Elegant Magazine

here are my favorite shots

of Yuliia by Stephania Campos

there's no person, like my home

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I expend no energy

being Me

as I Am

totally stripped

baring my soul

my naked heart

revealing

in surrendering all

I will be able to

the I Am

and therefore

I am no longer

becoming

I am the She

I want to be

the She

I Am

I am completely devoid,

bereft of.

Bankrupt

of any further

machination or manipulation

Nothing left.

I give it all up to you God

Because I can't MAKE it happen

I have tried everything else but

in my exhaustion

I see

the only option

is to go forward into

the utter annihilation

of stepping into the void

there is nothing left

but the inevitability

of surrendering to my creativity

and allowing the Universe to support me

there is nothing left in front of me on my path

the inexorable demand

to surrender

all

there is nothing left to try

I have tried

if I want to stay well

the only option I have

is complete surrender

not even a want

or a desire

an assumption that I know

what is best for me

no metaphysical manipulation

in exhaustion

there is nothing left for me to try

nothing more for me to force to happen

no assumption of what will make it all work

left for me to adopt

to receive
the download of energy
from the Universe
that supports the presentation
of my project
I want it to feel like
my face is to the sun
and all I have to do
is absorb the rays

I am terrified about being able to stay

well for my art show
I want to have a different experience
than the one I had in Venice
at the beginning of the year
I want to experience
vitality in tandem
with creative expression
to feel invigorated
while presenting my work

Listen to the Light

John S Niendorff

I have learned that the Universe is reliable

I trust in it

Therefore, I surrender to it

Niendorff

we've been conditioned to not make mistakes

but I can't live that way

release your inhibitions

no one else can speak the words on your lips

live you your life wide open

today is where your book begins

the rest is still unwritten

Self-Voyeur

at Satellite Art Show

Miami, 6-9 December 2018

each artist exhibits in a shipping container

my niece Lily sent me Flat Stanley

to take on some adventures

here we are about to leave for a party

at The House on Sunset

full moon over LA from Laurel Canyon

yes

love this

you just know

Dustin speaking my language

my kind of pool

And the day came

when the risk to remain tight in a bud

was more painful than

the risk it took to blossom.

Anaïs Nin

I just updated my styling website today

My portfolio is filled with published work!

I am so pleased

Take a look at

Monica Los Angeles

(link in sidebar)

thank you!! 🙋🏻❤️

sometimes you need to make

the commitment of all commitments

to discover what it is you really want

our editorial made the front and back covers and inside page
(in addition to the full editorial in the magazine)

Maximum Vengence on the cover of October @elegantmagazine

photographed by Stephania Campos @stephania_photo

featuring model Yuliia Kurochka @yuliia_kurochka

styled by me Monica Seggos @monicalosangeles

he knew all along

(from the beginning)

that she loved him

he knows now

(in this moment)

that she loves him still

(more than anyone else in the world)

always holding

him

self

in the deepest part

of her being

knowing

that more than anything

in the world

he needs

and wants

her love

in that moment

of being seen as

him

self

he placed his heart

in her hands

for safekeeping

she has been

tending to it

with love

in reverence

ever since

the unbearable

joy

of being seen

the he that is

him

self

until
her

until she held up the mirror

to show him

his magnificence

his beauty

and that was

the most traumatic

moment

of all

the inability

of those who cared for him

to love him for

him

self

lead him to believe

that as he was

him

self

was unloveable

invisibility

and self-erasure

were chosen

as self-protective

mechanisms

against

the trauma

of being unable to see

him

self

in someone else's eyes

as a result

he questioned

whether he existed at all

through her creative expression

he feels the depth of her love

for him

so even if he cannot hold on

to the truth of seeing

him

self

through her eyes

he feels the truth

he sees the truth

in the manifestation

of her creative expression

the exhaustion

of looking through

another's eyes to see

him

self

and seeing only a

the self

that person wants him to be

the he that is

not him

he saw himself

through the eyes of her love

and was reborn

into him

self

it took her

loving him as

him

self

for him to see

that he was always

the he

he wanted everyone to see

there is no guessing

no having to morph

into an ideal

to prove worth and value

there is only him

self

loved for who he really is

who he has always been

seeing himself through

her eyes

allows him to feel loved

and be loved

because he IS love

Gabriel de Cool 1895

unlike this painting,

he is her muse

connecting her with her creativity

and femininity

which manifests in her essence

and reflects back to him

when he looks at her

and feels love,

he is not just loving her

he is loving the he that she sees

mine that is

😂😂😂😂

Earthquake warning for California

for the upcoming week
I have been watching these forecasts
for about 6 months
and they are spot on
Please pass this on to anyone you know
in these areas