MONICA SEGGOS
POLYMATH

ARTIST - FASHION DESIGNER - STORYTELLER - ENTREPRENEUR - FUTURIST

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You Will Be (21 Sept 20)

You Will Be (20 September 20)

Lady of the Lake (to the left)

Dessert in the Desert

Venus Anadyomene (It's Time for Your Life)

I Am Innocent

Neptune S'amuse 😄

I See Things in Color, Even if Everyone Around Me Thinks in Black and White

Always Be Ready, Even if You're Alone in the Desert

Quarantine in LA

Plunge

I have been so worried about the birds dying in all this smoke

I hear them chirping this morning 

deafening silence would be so upsetting 

it is so utterly tranquil this evening

the breeze is restless

yet soothing

wafting over me

caressing the space

that I inhabit

it is blissful

Thank you for teaching me how to live

You will never be forgotten

9/11

I stepped outside to go for a walk earlier

and stepped right back in

Unbearable smell of smoke

apparently the brilliant orange sun this morning 

is from the smoke of the fires

Still doesn't do it justice

it's only going up to 91 today

so it's not the heat 

wow

so blessed to see this

 I wish I could capture how orange the sun is this morning!!

it is like a ball of vibrant, fluorescent orange

the power of the color is like nothing I've ever seen here

W🧡W!!!!

The Bower Bird (5 Sept 20) Collage on Paper

Bower bird males decorate their spaces

with found objects

to entice the females. 

Some of the found objects are sparkly 

or are stolen from other bower bird's nests. 

The males then peck and peck at the females

to see which ones tolerate the attacks. 

The one that survives and stays around

is the one they mate with. 

 Phew! Wow!! It's a little warm out today! 

 Wow. The heat is in the air and it's not quite the temperature that it's projected to be yet! Phew! And I'm still in the shade 

I'm looking for a manager

If anyone knows a manger who is interviewing prospective clients,

please let me know

Thanks!

the era of Malcolm Gladwell

and specialization

is over

we are in the dawning of

The Age of the Polymath

Welcome

for years,

I have split myself into pieces

When amongst a fashion crowd,

I have said that I am a fashion designer,

stylist and set designer.

When amongst the film industry,

I have said that I am an actor.

When amongst artists,

I have said I am an artist.

When amongst writers,

I have said that I am a poet.

When I am around business people

I am a businesswoman

I have separate websites and separate social 

social media sites for everything

I am not doing this anymore

I started a community group 

for all things polymath

on Quora

The Happy Polymath

I hope you will join!

You can find me on Quora

where I am sharing information

and my experience

of being a polymath
Monica Seggos

this week, 

I changed all my social media accounts to reflect my new title

Polymath

Those of us who FINALLY claim our right to call ourselves Polymaths 

are neither bragging or lacking in humility. 

Personally, I have finally come to the point that I am tired of trying to fit in. 

On one hand, those who believe in specialization
 criticize polymaths for being dilettantes

 and on the other, we are accused of being pretentious. 

I will never fit in, no matter what. 

I am what I am
I now choose to claim what I am.

after years of writing poetry, proposals,
automediality, memoir,

 academic papers and love letters,

here is how I am finally able to 

wrap my head around screenwriting

or

that is definitely manageable

somehow transported

To Live and Die in LA

I’ve been taking a lot of comic book classes

during the coronavirus

Last week, I did an artist residency with CAMP and artist Gabrielle Bell

Usually the residency is in the mountains outside Toulouse,

but, you know, Covid

It was an amazing group of people online from all over the globe

Gabrielle stressed that comics

are autobiographical, and they make you feel something

(right up my alley!!)

I just posted my comic, I and Me,

mixing it with collage, which Gabrielle loved

I like that her style is so personal,

 and I like the idea I can add this to my automediality repertoire

In my other classes, I am looking towards creating a female character

that is more traditional (Marvel) in style

It is taking a lot of time and effort,

because I am learning anatomy

I also love Pulp Fiction book covers,

and have wanted to paint some of my own

So the effort I am putting into learning how to draw the figure

is time well spent

I and Me

27 Aug 2020

a point of view

welcome to LA, sun

Finished the first draft

of my first screenplay

of my first short film

💥

good morning

first day I've taken the bandage off my oil splatter burn

this was after tripping and falling down 

the steps coming home in the dark of the morning

morning walk under the moon and venus

so thrilled that these flowers all bloomed

at the same time!

and look!!!

babies!!

Ganna in her lily pond 

(this will be me in my secret garden)

The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalised after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. The term is based on an ancient saying that presumed black swans did not exist – a saying that became reinterpreted to teach a different lesson after the first European encounter with them.

I added this layout to my scrapbook almost 2 weeks ago

trying to figure out how to collage it

I've decided to leave it as is

It is a photograph of 

Ganna Waleska's garden 

Lotusland

I dreamt about it before I moved to LA

not knowing that it existed

I love the black swans

and the blue herons

I still haven't been yet 

good morning 

Paris will come before London

in the presence of

if I would have known what would happen,

I would have done a time lapse

beautiful nonetheless

another one

felt this one underneath my feet 

overlooking the sunrise

watching it roll in at the song of the birds 

nights are overrated

morning mist at the high tide line