What will life be like now? What will the days we have left feel like? Could the weight of this unexplained pain lighten even a little? These are but a few of the thoughts that wander through the confusion of our minds when we receive the news of a loved one's death. Since the death of my son, I've had the opportunity to speak with many people who have been through this same pain, and I see the need to offer them hope and a guide to orient them in the process of overcoming their own grief. I have seen many people stuck in one or more stages of grief, surviving, wasting their lives, feeling incomplete and ruined. I know those feelings, which is why I feel the need to share what God can and wants to do in the life of anyone who is willing. We do not have to remain in pain, sadness, guilt, or anger. God wants to restore your broken heart. He wants to heal your wounds and lift your life out of the pit of despair.
Laura Lopez Paniagua Livres


A critical appraisal of Mike Kelley's politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings American artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome. This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley's work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua's transdisciplinary approach, Kelley's oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.