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The story of my life thus far is a narrative of the multiplicity of being, devoting to the voice within me of accountability to future generations, continuously unraveling patriarchal ideologies that bind my extraordinarily interconnect Self,
becoming ever-intimate in relationship with Mother Earth + how this connection informs my worldview,
communing with my ever-deepening original voice to express through art + collaboration dedicated to the world's regenerative belonging,
and irrevocably attuning to this Great Era of Becoming that is ever-alive within the song of my cells + the evolving revolution of perception within humanity:
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I AM ARTIST
I AM ARTIVIST (artist + activist)
Art seems to be the only vocation encompassing enough to support the revolution of perception, cultural regeneration, global evolution,
and my contributive voice in it.
I have something profound to say, through listening, through receptivity.
I am moved to create fertile space for others to share their regenerative perspectives.
I don't just make pretty art for pretty homes; I make art with a powerful voice.
I live in the wild to learn within intrinsic teachings and rhythms of the more-than-human natural world, weaving them into the evolving elements within.
I have a mobile art studio to "dry paint" nomadically.
I live with an ever-developing awareness + regard of future generations, ancestry, and how I may contribute creatively to the rise of wellbeing + great remembrance.
I make "slow art", a counter-art-culture approach opposed to fast art/fast food/fast fashion: to reclaim my own natural rhythms of creating + communing with the multiplicity of the Elder and ancestry I am portraiting.
I have found that the greatest art I tend to are the profound relationships along this path + cocreating this vision.
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Ritualizing the tender care + listening of all my relations within me, and without, for "going forward" is not one directional, but an honoring of returning and the ever-cyclical journey of coming to renewed home.
-Melle
