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Artist Melissa “Sasi” Chambers creates “tarpages” as part of Boise UU Fellowship’s Plate Partners program.

Photography as a meditation.

Encaustic and wax painting: figure and landscape.

Instinct, experience, and aesthetic judgment play a crucial role.

Translucent alabaster captures the spirit of fire.

Making an object that exists solely to be captured in a photograph then discarded is a study in the Buddhist teaching of impermanence.

‘My thought process as I paint is a non-linear flow of consciousness.’