Melissa is a California based multidisciplinary artist working across photography, 2-D mixed media, and 3-D installation, with a practice rooted in alternative and historical photographic processes alongside neon fabrication — a traditionally male-dominated medium she embraces as a space for female-centered representation. Her 2-D work blurs the line between personal memory and surreal dreamscape, drawing subconsciously from childhood, heritage, flora and fauna, music, and family to create images laced with weirdness and exaggeration. Across all mediums, she weaves together found objects, sculpture, and deeply personal narrative to build a body of work that is at once intimate and otherworldly.