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So it's time for the annual State of the Art Gallery spring photo show, and I'm thinking of submitting this. Basically, I cleaned up a messy home dev shot I took about a year ago (original here), flipped it and stacked it up. Yay or nay?
I'm allowed to submit up to two. I'll paste the other contender below.
Any thoughts or other suggestions? It can be anything, going back two years, and I'm incredibly indecisive. Help!
Working on a series for a folio Which includes Algonquin, 'The Bruce', Killarney and LaCloche images.
These pines grow very slowly in the harsh climate and cling to life in the most tentative places. It makes me wonder just how old this fine specimen really is
If you want to see it printed come along to Art in the Street, Guelph on July 13th !
Artist Statement:
In Supply Chain, I wanted to strip away the elegance of consumer presentation and leave behind the grotesque reality of commodification. The forms on display are bloated and excessive, but still posed still curated. They reflect the ideal body, exaggerated to the point of absurdity, then discarded like overstock. These aren’t mannequins. They’re echoes of former desire, caught between advertisement and autopsy. The viewer outside the glass is not exempt they’re dressed in the same uniform of success, briefcase in hand, a participant in the system they refuse to question. This piece confronts how we aestheticize excess, and how our hunger for status swells until it collapses under its own weight.
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Hashtags:
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #10000HourProject, #WindowInstallation, #MannequinCritique, #BodyCommodification, #ConsumerCultureArt, #DecayAsDesign, #ContemporaryArt, #DarkSurrealism, #VisualCapitalism, #FashionButcher, #CorporateDisfigurement, #LateStageLuxury, #HauteMacabre, #ArtAsReckoning, #ExcessInDisplay, #GallerySubmission, #MeloraExhibit
Old idea with a new twist :)
I am gearing up for a show called Side show. Can't wait to show you all what I have been working on. trying to make more kinetic pieces. This is one of many ideas.
I am doing this Large and small- OOO so exciting
So color and movement are on my agenda
Artist Statement:
At Capacity captures the breaking point of decorum in a world addicted to appearances. The man in the suit is not falling he’s floating, suspended in a system that no longer makes room for the living. Above him: another body, limp, thrown or displayed like merchandise. Behind him: shells of humanity, abstracted, slick, inflated to the point of parody. This is not about fashion. This is about the grotesque inflation of status and the silent, complicit collapse that follows. The suited man is the consumer, the product, and the corpse, all at once.
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Hashtags:
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #10000HourProject, #ContemporaryInstallation, #SurrealRealism, #VisualCommentary, #DisplayWindowArt, #HyperCapitalism, #GallerySubmission, #HauteHorror, #SuitsAsSymbols, #ConsumerSpectacle, #BodyPoliticsInArt, #DarkLuxury, #ModernVanitas, #ExcessAndAbsence, #ArtAsMirror, #MeloraVisuals
Artist Statement:
The Weight Carried Quietly explores what it means to wear success like armor and what happens when that armor is no longer yours to control. Suspended in a pantomime of stability, the suited figure in the center is not defiant, but numb. He levitates in the middle of grotesque forms that mimic human achievement: inflated, contorted, absurd. These are not mannequins they are monuments to failure no one wants to claim. The bodies hanging from strings recall both retail and ritual. Inside the glass, the rules change. This isn’t a store. This is a holding cell for those who were too heavy, too eager, or too late. The viewer’s job is not to empathize, but to reckon with the slow violence of looking away.
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Hashtags:
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #10000HourProject, #SurveillanceAesthetic, #ModernMartyrdom, #PostCapitalistGallery, #MannequinTheatre, #VisualDiscipline, #ConceptualSculpture, #RetailAndRuin, #PowerCritique, #DarkWindowSeries, #HyperRealDecay, #MaleFormDeconstructed, #InstallationArt, #CorporateViolence, #FashionAsPunishment, #HauntingStillness, #GallerySubmission, #NewContemporaryArt
Artist Statement:
In Study in Flesh and Refuse, I wanted to create a moment of reversal where the idealized male body, often placed on a pedestal, is instead positioned at the brink of obsolescence. Here, he stands naked before the bags wrapped suits, wrapped bodies, wrapped status and we must ask: is he above them, or simply next in line for the garbage heap? The plastic bags serve as both shroud and packaging. The businessmen outside the glass are unbothered; they’ve already accepted that value lies in polish, not in personhood. This is about how we treat strength, perfection, and men themselves as inventory, to be cycled through and tossed aside.
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Hashtags:
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #10000HourProject, #ContemporaryArt, #MannequinStudy, #MaleFormInCrisis, #CommodificationOfBodies, #PlasticWrappedTruth, #StorefrontViolence, #GallerySubmission, #NarrativeArt, #ConceptualInstallation, #PostConsumerCritique, #VisualTension, #SculpturalPhotography, #MasculineCollapse
Artist Statement:
Sometimes the quietest ones leave the heaviest mark.
In this piece, I wanted to explore how stillness can be more menacing than motion. The Lamb’s expression is blank, unreadable but beneath the silence is something unresolved. Something patient.
This was never about the violence. It was always about what happens next.
Hashtags :
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #TheSoftestWarning, #AIArt, #PostViolenceAesthetic, #MaskedNarrative, #ContemporaryArt, #SymbolicPortrait, #UnsettlingBeauty, #BloodInSilence, #GallerySubmission, #NeoMythology, #DarkCinematicArt, #FlickroftheDay, #ArtistOnFlickr, #AllegoricalVisuals, #NarrativeTension, #ModernRitual
Artist Statement:
There’s power in not reacting. And there’s danger in what that stillness hides.
“He Wasn’t the One Who Cleaned It Up” is a study in silent aftermath. The Lamb doesn’t flee. He doesn’t fix his collar. He walks forward, stained but unfazed.
The mask is no longer ironic. It’s absolute.
I made this to explore the moment when consequence stops feeling like consequence and becomes routine.
Hashtags :
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #HeWasntTheOneWhoCleanedItUp, #AIArt, #GenerativeArt, #SurrealSymbolism, #BloodAndPower, #DarkConceptualArt, #FineArtDigital, #NewMediaArt, #MaskedViolence, #PostRitualPresence, #UncannyAuthority, #ArtThatSpeaks, #GallerySubmission, #LambMythology, #NarrativeStillness, #PsychologicalDread
Artist Statement:
In this piece, I wanted to explore the paradox of spectacle and labor the way systems of consumption are both hidden and glorified. The suited man represents corporate detachment, standing in awe of a window display that mimics struggle without acknowledging it. The sculptural figure, forever laboring, becomes an object of display, divorced from personhood. Meanwhile, the mannequins remind us that both observer and observed are products of the same system some active, some discarded. Is this a celebration or a warning? That discomfort is the point.
Hashtags:
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #SurrealArt, #ConsumerCritique, #LateCapitalism, #ContemporaryArt, #WindowDisplayArt, #NarrativePhotography, #ArtAndLabor, #DisposableCulture, #PlasticWrappedTruth, #SpectacleAndSilence, #CorporateAlienation, #GallerySubmission, #FineArtConceptual, #ArtThatSpeaks, #VisualSociology, #TheGlassBoxEconomy
Artist Statement:
Not all decay devours. Some simply takes what is given.
“She Offered Herself to the Rot” is a portrait of stillness amidst collapse. The surrounding roots are not trees they are griefs that grew in silence. She does not fight them. She joins them.
This is not surrender. It is integration.
I wanted to capture what it looks like when someone no longer asks the world to remember her, but instead chooses to stay rooted, aware, unresisting.
Hashtags :
#Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #SheOfferedHerselfToTheRot, #AIArt, #GenerativeArt, #SymbolicDecay, #DigitalMythmaking, #ConceptualElegy, #VisualHaunting, #NarrativeStillness, #ArtOfTheUnspoken, #ContemporaryGothic, #MachineLearningArt, #NewMediaArt, #FlickroftheDay, #DarkFeminineEnergy, #RuinAndRitual, #RedAsOffering, #PostCollapsePoetry, #FineArtDigital, #ArtThatSpeaks, #GallerySubmission, #MythInStillness
Artist Statement:
What do we inherit when memory rots in silence?
“Inheritance of the Forgotten” examines the burden of carrying what previous generations chose not to speak aloud. The red bundles below are not literal bodies—but emotional weight. Memories wrapped in shame, stitched shut, and left to decay.
The lone figure does not descend into ruin; she emerges from it. She walks with the cloth of silence trailing behind her, asking—what parts of our past are worth preserving, and what must finally be left to rot?
In this work, light is not redemption. It’s exposure. It is what happens when the secrets can no longer hide.
Hashtags :
#RhondaMelo #Melor #Melor<3 #MelorArtist #InheritanceOfTheForgotten #AIArt #ConceptualVisuals #GenerativeArt #SurrealDigitalArt #SymbolicNarratives #DramaticLighting #DarkFeminineEnergy #VisualHaunting #ContemporaryArt #GothicSurrealism #MachineLearningArt #PostTraumaArt #ArtOfSecrets #NarrativeArt #NeoBaroque #NewMediaArt #GallerySubmission #FineArtDigital #ArtExhibition #DigitalAlchemy #FlickroftheDay #AIandArt #ArtThatSpeaks #UnspokenInheritance #EmotionInFabric
Artist Statement:
You don’t clean the blood off just tighten the tie.
This piece captures the Lamb in his most terrifying state: composed. It’s the calm before nothing. There’s no threat, no anger, no performance. Just a quiet fix of a collar. We dress for the roles we inhabit. This is him dressing for what he already is a thing not even trying to pass anymore.
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#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #DressCode, #LambVisuals, #BloodAndElegance, #HorrorPhotography, #DigitalArt, #DarkNarrativeArt, #ConceptualHorror, #CinematicStill, #AIArtistry, #ArtThatConfronts, #MenaceInSilence, #SurrealPortraiture, #ArtThatSticks, #NeoNoirAesthetic, #GallerySubmission, #FlickroftheDay
Artist Statement:
You can’t outrun memory when it walks at your pace.
“What You Walk Away From, Walks With You” is about aftermath without regret moving forward without needing resolution. The Lamb isn’t rushing. He isn’t hiding. But he isn’t free either.
The suit still bears the story. The eyes are hidden, but the posture says: I’ve made peace with the weight, and I’m still moving.
Hashtags :
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #WhatYouWalkAwayFromWalksWithYou, #AIArt, #GenerativeArt, #NarrativeSymbolism, #PostConflictSilence, #DigitalFineArt, #GallerySubmission, #MaskedPhotography, #ContemporaryMythmaking, #LambSeries, #DarkElegance, #VisualRitual, #NewMediaArt, #UncannyPresence, #FlickroftheDay, #EmotionalAftermath
Artist Statement:
The gesture wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t performance. It was memory.
“He Brushed the Wall Just to Feel Something” explores the sensory return to reality after ritual collapse. The Lamb isn’t reveling. He isn’t hiding. He’s checking in on his own skin, on his own breath.
The suit is stained. The wool is weathered. But the fingertips say more than the blood ever could.
I created this to explore the residual moments the unconscious ticks that remain after everything else has fallen silent.
Hashtags :
#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #HeBrushedTheWallJustToFeelSomething, #AIArt, #GenerativeArt, #FineArtDigital, #MaskedMythology, #RitualAftermath, #ConceptualPortraiture, #UncannySymbolism, #PostRitualPresence, #ArtThatSpeaks, #GallerySubmission, #PsychologicalNarrative, #FlickroftheDay, #SurrealPhotography, #NewMediaArt, #LambMythos