Stare Love

Mike Saijo

Ripped through the sands of time to the place where true love lives one can clearly see there are no lies there. It’s a happy place cluttered with lessons on the floor waiting to be swept up and taken out with the debris of lost hope and dreams forgotten.

True love is tricky because it defies time and space. It is omnipresent if we can see that it exists in every breath that we take, in all of the actions we make in life. The illusion is that love is fleeting and gone never to be seen again or regained. The truth is love is all around us if we dare to stare it in the face.

Come see Mike Saijo‘s One Piece opening tonight, June 19th 6-9pm at BLEICHER/GOLIGHTLY in Santa Monica.

Living Through the Hell of It

Matthew Heller - "Love Heller"

Basking in the blessings of life is a natural human behavior, admired from afar by many; daringly envied by a few. What people fail to witness is the hell we live through while viewing what’s on display. These peaceful moments of bliss can seem fleeting when compared to the lifelong journey we travel.

Life and love can seem like hell, we are awakened by the love that surrounds us, reminded that this hell is love. This journey is life, these blessings are what we are living, without this hellish existence we would have no blessings because nothing worth having comes fast, or easy, or free.

Love is not what we expect, but we love heller because it is what sets us free from nothingness. Without the hell of the journey we would be empty inside, without the fire that motivates us to move forward and prosper in life, where would be? No where. We are thankful for the hell, indeed we yearn for it when it is gone. Without one the other cannot exist. Live through the hell of it and love all of it.

Matthew Heller is my favorite artist and a dear friend of mine.

Potential Accountable

Squished down, smudged out, puckered up, hidden away, silenced in. So many of us lay unaccounted for; our potential like soldiers slain on a battle field. We dull ourselves down into versions that seem more appropriate for our job, the circumstance, our relationship or whatever is in front of us at the moment. What we don’t realize about our potential is that people notice.

Julia Schwartz - Fool on the Hill

People see our ghost version impersonator wafting along, pretending to be us. Some will acknowledge the real us slain on the ground, glance between the two and sigh, others will engage the ghost with lust and verve and never care. A  small few will grab hold and point to the slain you and yell, “wake up!”

Potential is patient, non-judgy, and true. Holding oneself accountable is something only you can do. It’s a dirty process, painful, and count on coming unglued. There is no end, but the journey is what keeps you alive.

Julia Schwartz is an amazing artist/psychoanalyst represented by Bleicher/Golightly in Santa Monica.