“releasing the poisons from our past in order to heal”
StaveSacre1 was one of my first of the series of paintings that I started working on. I had just moved to Morgan Hill, California back in 1998 was getting settled there for a volunteer job I opted to do after college. It was rather comical, here I go to a college to be trained in Communication Arts, acquire my BA degree, and now I was wondering what the purpose was. Was that it? Was this all there was, I go to school, then start working for a corporation and that is it? I was really trying to find the purpose and the meaning behind it all. I was trying to find out what made me feel satisfied in my life.
The confusing part was how often I was raised to associate work with my personal “identity.” Being 2,000 miles away from my hometown, I realized I was closer to myself than I ever was. It wasn’t the job or the work that made me a person. It was the life I choose to lead and the example I was creating. So StaveSacre1 was about harnessing my own strength and breaking the “yoke” around my neck. Breaking down a stereotype or an idea of what life should be and establishing something to call my own.
– Meilena Hauslendale
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