HeyJaredMelvina Art
Artist | Sacred Alchemist | A Sensual Sovereign in Ritual 🖤✨
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Finally Letting Go of These Paintings (opens the original)
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Life has been lifing lately. I’ve been trying to flow with it, even when it asks me to loosen my grip on things I thought I’d always hold close.There are paintings I thought I would keep forever.Some of them were my anchors when I needed one. I’ve sat with them lately, remembering who I was when I painted them, and cried at the thought of letting them go. I realised I had painted what I needed in those moments, and I was my own anchor all along.I’m ready to let them go now. These are paintings I
Devotional Bliss (opens the original)
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How much of our lives have become centred around the self?Self-love. Self-healing. Self-care. Self-esteem. Self-development. Self-discovery. Everywhere you look, there is another book, podcast, course or ritual teaching us how to return to ourselves, understand ourselves, heal ourselves and choose ourselves. And yes, all of that matters. But somewhere inside all of this self-self-self, I started wondering: what about us?What about the relationship itself? What about the space between two people?
Remember Who You Are (opens the original)
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Before they called us witches, they called us oracles, herbalists, midwives, priestesses. We knew things. We knew when something was wrong before there was proof. We knew how to listen to the body, how to read the seasons, how to sit beside birth and death without turning either into something to fear. We understood that dreams carry messages, that the body speaks before the mind has language, and that there are things you feel long before you can explain them.For a limited time, annual entry is
When Goddesses Are Brought to Canvas (opens the original)
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When I first created this series, the goddesses were simply graphite sketches. Then I started playing with coloured graphite because, well, why not? And somewhere along the way, apparently me and my spirit at 3 a.m. decided they needed to exist on canvas too. <source type="image/webp"
His Altar of Desire (opens the original)
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There is something intoxicating about being invited inside his gaze. His desire becomes ritual. His dominance becomes devotion. Her body, the altar where restraint, worship and hunger meet. This piece is written from his point of view, from that sacred place where possession becomes prayer and every touch leaves its own scripture on the skin.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A4Ab!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubst
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