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Melissa's Stele
Innie Outie1
Innie Outie2
the Whazzit Family
Melissa is inspired to use a variety
of media expressing
the rhythms and cycles of living.
While using traditional materials (pine needles and ceramic)
and traditional methods (coiling and slab),
she pushes the final product into a non-traditional sculptural vessel, while honoring the original rhythms of the materials.
The finished vessel makes a statement about a moment in time,
a sense of place, a cycle started, a cycle complete.