MONICA SEGGOS

TRANSDISCIPLINARY ART + ONE-OFF FASHION

Transdisciplinary Art

"...emergence of a new discipline transcending

the boundaries of disciplinary perspective...

It can be considered as the culmination of interdisciplinary efforts...

[that] has a wholism associated with it."

What is Transdisciplinary?

Jaya Ramchandani

"the transdisciplinary artist blends all the pieces of knowledge and skill together

and creates art that we cannot define through the canons

that specify genres as we know them.

Art that goes beyond genre does not reveal the elements from which it is made,

and it is manifested as a homogeneous entity that exists independently;

it goes across many disciplines, in order to reach a final destination."

What Does the Term InterdisciplinaryArtist Imply?

Patina Lee for Widewalls

Transdisciplinary Art is the synthesization

of multiple disciplines

Monica Seggos

4 October 2019

Art as Environment

My installations are environments,

and the viewer

is just as important to the work

as is the tableau.

In fact, integral, inseparable.

The works are not complete

until the viewer

participates in their existence.

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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Pygmalion et Galatée

Jean-Léon Gérôme
transformed, brought to life
by the force of love
Happy Valentine's Day ❤️

@mikebloomberg

cloth

enfolds skin

useless is total

unable to

confirm the body

of existence

Height x Width x Depth

in inches

meaningless

to one hopeless with

measurements

the whispers

of inhalations

exhaling breathless

echoes from

cavernous chambers

living from

the inside out

gives form

though in the desert

ever sizeless

lion head

found object of the day

he is broken and worn

but still beautiful to me

and I love him

the kiss

Hotel de Rohan Soubise, Paris, by Architect Germain Boffrand

this is me

this is who I am

beauty

it's where I am home

“I felt like Eve —

I had just discovered that I was naked.”

Sculptor Beverly Pepper

I'm so tired

Of playing

Playing with this bow and arrow

Gonna give my heart away

Leave it to the other girls to play

For I've been a temptress too long

Just

Give me a reason

To love you

Give me a reason to be

A woman

I just want to be a woman

From this time, unchained

We're all looking at a different picture

Through this new frame of mind

A thousand flowers could bloom

Move over, and give us some room, yeah

Give me a reason

To love you

Give me a reason to be

A woman

I just want to be a woman

So don't you stop

Being a man

Just take a little look

From outside when you can

Sow a little tenderness

No matter if you cry

Give me a reason

To love you

Give me a reason to be

A woman

I just want to be a woman

It's all I want to be

Is all woman

For this is the beginning

Of forever

And ever

It's time to move over

It's all I wanna be

I'm so tired

Of playing

Playing with this bow and arrow

Gonna give my heart away

Leave it to the other girls to play

For I've been a temptress too long

Just

Give me a reason, to love you

Thanks for the photo Taylor!

pskaufman gallery

everything is the unknown

I don't know where I'm going from here

I'm just walking, moving

getting closer and closer

to the unknown

I will know what it is when I get there

I Can Breathe Again

Life goals:

unbridled self-expression in high heels and couture

Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Didn't it Rain?" Live, 1964

I love when she says, "This is the wonderfulest time of my life"

right when she gets out of the carriage

ushering in the decade of happy endings

Strum me

like a guitar

and my body

will sing for you

acoustically

the butterfly is

and the butterfly does

what a butterfly is

2020

Be, Do & Have

Sparkling with a dash of fiery fearlessness

Iridescent with infinite opulence

Opalescing pure joy

Luminous love and transcendent sexual expression

Dazzling with radical and revelatory self-expression

Piercing the shimmering clouds with sparkling laughter

Sensuous immersion in the brilliance of beauty

Inhabiting the enchantment of femininity through lustrous sinuosity

Luscious revelation through scintillating adornment

Inhaling transcendence amidst the splendour of twinkling stars

A bioluminescent heart, shimmering with passion and gleaming of hearth and home

Ebullient devotion to the radiant self and reverence for the glorious cosmos

Shining with the magnificence of stalwart courage

Effervescing boundless trust

Ablaze with the untamed passions of a galactic heart

Gambolling, cavorting and romping, engaging in

adventures, shenanigans, larks, antics and capers, stimulating vivaciousness

Bubbling with gratitude, revelling in the gift of an incandescent life

Come Out and Play!

The Galactic Heart Space Station in Orbit

Inhaling Stars (9 Jan 2020)

Power Washing (How the Moon Stays So Bright), 2020

here is a preview of the work I will be showing

for Eternal Sky at pskaufman gallery

Opening 31 January

word of the day:

effulgence

Hieros Gamos

(5 January 2020 got the date wrong above!)

Chastity Belt #3

welded steel, steel wire, burlap ribbon, eggs

I am excited to announce that I have been invited to

participate in a female group art show entitled

Eternal Sky

co-curated by Ara Cho, Taylor and Paul

at pskaufman gallery in DTLA

opening on Jan 31, 2020

Ara's concept:

There is a Chinese proverb that says women hold up half the sky.

Eternal Sky is meant to represent the unlimited expression

that women bring to this endeavor.

Holding up the sky, not as a task to keep it from falling,

but rather as a way to allow humanity to pass through the sky

(what could be viewed as our limitations):

leading, in order to create, evolve and thrive.

The purpose of this show

is to present art that embodies women’s empowerment,

encourages the women’s art community

and inspires other women to create more.

So beautiful

I really resonate with her concept

and I am excited to create something

that speaks to how I respond to it

I will post the announcement

and links to the other exhibitors

as soon I get the notice!

I was not quite able to pick up

the glow of the sunset light

so beautiful

Happy 2020s

Happy New Year

with Love & Light,

Monica

ringing in the new decade like Thierry Mugler

Happy 2020

Thierry Mugler "Les Fauves"
F/W 2001-2 RTW
Photo : Patrice Stable

the light

it's so beautiful

it was so clear this morning on my walk

I could see all the way to Catalina

from the lookout on Blue Heights

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

playoff picture

love this

An Understanding of the Question

By Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks

Why doesn’t a soul fly when it hears the call?

Fish on the beach always move toward wave-sound.

A falcon hears the drum and brings the quarry home.

Why isn’t every dervish dancing in the sun?

You have escaped the cage. Your wings

are stretched out. Now, fly.

You have slept in sheds and out-buildings

so long you think you live there.

How many years, like children,

do we have to collect sticks and pieces

of broken pottery and pretend they’re valuable?

Leave childhood. Go to the banquet

of true human beings. Split open the cultural mould.

Put your head up out of the sack.

Hold this book in the air with your right hand.

Are you old enough to know right from left?

God said to clarity, Walk.

To death, Help them with discipline.

To the soul, Move into the invisible

and takes what’s there.

Don’t sing the sadness anymore.

Call out that you have been given both
the answer and an understanding of the question.

yummy roast beef

and my first ever Yorkshire Pudding

a success!

Happy Christmas everyone!

🎄🎄🎄🎄

my alter ego

Mrs. Peel

If you trade passion for stability,

you basically trade one fiction for another.

Both are products of our imagination.

Esther Perelman, Cultivating Desire
The Knowledge Project, Episode #71

my favorite piece from the UCLA Arts MFA Open Studios

by Valeria Tizol Vivas

As a Transdisciplinary Artist engaged in social practice, social engagement and the human experience are my primary mediums. The human experience is universal, and I develop concepts that share my own experience in order to encourage others to tell their stories. I have found when I share my thoughts, feelings and perspective through my work, the audience is inspired to respond from their experience. I have had some profound interactions that have lead to new discoveries about my process. The audience is a crucial component to my work, because I am able to look at the projects more objectively based on their responses to it.

I don't know how many times

I have written and rewritten

my artist statement!

I have done it again.

(see the updated version

on my Artist Statement + CV page)

I have been struggling for so long to understand

exactly what kind of art I make.

It was after seeing the Margulies Collection in Miami

and going to the UCLA Open Studios

last night
that I finally understood

that
the basis of my work is sculpture.

Whether it is Post-Internet or Installation,

I am a Transdisciplinary Artist

creating from a sculptural perspective:

my jewelry is sculpture

my Post-Internet art is sculpture from a process perspective

my installations are sculpture, from the set to the assemblage

I use sculpture in my Performance Art

the primary works in my installations are sculpture

my paintings are 2D sculpture ...

Transdisciplinary Art

is a fusion of mediums

Art Fusion

the new food

I'm serving up

in LA

transmogrified

I do ☺️