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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 Falling Short,

You’ve watched from the sidelines of my life always reminding me I’ll never fulfill my potential. From a young age I was gifted with brilliance, with athleticism, with creativity. The world was my oyster. If I could conceive it and believe it of course I could achieve it.
Starting businesses. No problem. Getting those businesses to reach their potential. There you were reminding me that Falling Short was my Destiny.

Pursuing martial arts and getting close to my target only to injure myself and there you were again helping me in Falling Short. A lifelong regret in place.

Every so often I succeeded so to maintain the dream that dreams were worth p...

"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...