Artist Statement:

In The Mourning Frame, I constructed a visual lament a woman becoming one with her surroundings, dissolving into sorrow as if grief has rewired the room itself. The red fabric, tangled and weeping, grows into the very frame of the window, blurring the boundary between self and space. The city sprawls below, indifferent, while the sky above swirls with crows, echoing the silence she holds within. This piece is about that specific kind of heartbreak that sits with you long after the moment has passed not loud, not angry, just still and endless. A moment suspended in a ruinous kind of beauty.

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#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #surrealart, #darksurrealism, #emotivearchitecture, #visualgrief, #symbolicdissolution, #mourningaesthetic, #redfabricart, #apocalypticgrace, #conceptualportraiture, #gothicfeminism, #stormwithin, #interiorcollapse, #silentemotion, #birdsasomens, #psychologicalart, #melancholicbeauty

Artist Statement:

A Choir of Silence explores the resonance of inner solitude in the aftermath of collapse. Draped in ceremonial red, the faceless figure turns toward a fractured world, not in despair, but in contemplation. The windows, once gateways to light, now illuminate ruin. And yet, a single red bird soars upward—silent but not voiceless, fragile but not defeated. This piece is an echo of how we endure grief: not through noise, but through posture, presence, and an unspoken ritual of stillness. Here, the fabric becomes not just a garment but a tide—collective, mournful, and dignified. This is where stillness sings.

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#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #surrealart, #darksurrealism, #cinematicaesthetic, #emotionalpoetry, #femininepower, #visualnarrative, #redfabricart, #griefandrebirth, #psychologicalsymbolism, #symbolicart, #windowlight, #hauntedbeauty, #decayandgrace, #conceptualart, #solitudeasstrength, #resilientfigure, #cathedralruin, #elegantdecay

Artist Statement:

The Silence Between Storms is about stillness in the face of emotional turbulence. The faceless figure—smooth, bald, unmoving—becomes a vessel emptied of identity, yet full of quiet resistance. Draped in rust-red fabric that echoes both royalty and ruin, they sit at the liminal space between the interior and the infinite. Outside, the clouds churn like thoughts we try to suppress, and yet the figure remains—a silhouette of control or surrender, depending on the viewer’s own weather. This piece is my meditation on how we hold ourselves together in private, in that hush just before the heart breaks—or before it heals.

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#RhondaMelo, #Melora, #Melora<3, #MeloraArtist, #surrealart, #darksurrealism, #conceptualart, #cinematicaesthetic, #emotionalpoetry, #visualnarrative, #stormwithin, #redfabricart, #psychologicalsymbolism, #innerlandscapes, #quietresistance, #chiaroscuroart, #introspectiveart, #liminalspace, #emotionaldepth, #stormysoul, #melancholyandgrace