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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 Unsafe,
There was a time when danger I knew.
We walked hand in hand. We were one, not two.
You helped me be scared, to hide when I needed.
But now I find, in me, You, deeply seated.
I'm grown now and shown now that I am capable.
I am not made of glass. Delicate. Breakable.
I am strong and flexible, no longer a waif.
I will go now, and prove now that I am safe.
So thank you for your service and the Love you have shown,
But you are no longer needed, now that I am grown.
-Mary Hamer

"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...