Jeff Sugar is an MD, a psychiatrist, and he’s an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. We think he’s a very special person. While still in elementary school, he found his first intellectual and artistic hero: Leonardo da Vinci, who wrote of the need to see clearly and to notice “the art in science and the science in art.” In Jeff’s teens and twenties, considering a career, he felt compelled to make art, but equally strong was his passion to understand the mind and how it sometimes faltered. Yet the mind could not be fully understood without learning its relationship to the body. The only way to do that would be to endure medical school and become a psychiatrist. Medicine itself—fixing ill or broken bodies—is a noble pursuit but didn’t get to what he thought was the core purpose of being alive. The Meaning of Life must concern the connection to something larger than ourselves.  After nearly 35 years of psychiatric practice, Jeff still finds this to be true, but now he places increased value on artistic expression. Jeff believes that great art speaks to something deep within us—whether the object is a Van Gogh portrait, a Pollock “Action Painting,” or one of Calder’s mobiles. Jeff wanted to create a site with an anthology of his mobiles, each with its own video, after all, this art form is fundamentally kinetic. Included are a couple of examples. More of his work is on the way.

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“Most Got Bent”

“Menagerie”