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Impact Art portraits are inspired by the Human Phoenix Project where the artist's inspirational muses allow themselves to be seen as messy, vulnerable humans through a letter to shadow aspects of themselves.

**Following is the Dear Shadow letter which inspires this specific work**
"Dear 'not good enough,

Just know that the road of perfection is infinitely long and the end impossible to reach. It's okay to exist and just do the things you like. I like existing."

- Daelynn Meglasson

"Heather Meglasson, Impact Artist, delivers a fresh edgy approach to storytelling on canvas, inspired by impact tools and the awesome messiness of being human." The abstract pieces I create, scratch, flog, whip, strike onto canvas in multiple layers, impacted with tangible metaphor, are inspired by muses. These muses are asked to dig deep and write an empowering letter to a shadow aspect of themselves. Through this very specific journaling process, they find themselves moving even further beyond that limiting belief and into a new sense of freedom. (View "Dear Shadow" letters in the description of each piece.) “Dear Shadow, I see you lurking. You do not define me. You were a belief, a feeling, a way to keep me safe in my smallness. You...