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NorCAL Wax
Encaustic & Cold Wax
Artists of Northern California
Melissa Stephens
Themes in my work include healing and human connection. I grew up in a time when writing letters was an important way of sharing your life with the people you love. As a result, I sometimes include hand-written correspondence or visual patterns that tie together in a particular way to represent emotions, relationships and/or familiarity.
When real words fail me, asemic writing presents a freeform way of creating images of text without the use of language. These scrawled out passages are an expression created with the force of my entire body, representing my deepest feelings.
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