Artistic Statement

I write about adventures: the world(s) I have inhabited, the people, the outcasts, “crazy ones",” the gravely misunderstood, the mystical unknowns under the surface, and all that which is far stranger than fiction. The terrible decisions we make that end up setting us free. The ways we try and fail to connect. The moments where we risk everything. The terrible cost of telling our stories. The spirits and spiritual. The times we speak to the gods and the times we become them. Magic as realism. The mystical in the mundane. The Divine Feminine. Our childlike wonder. That step we take alone into the unknown.

I am inspired by music, poetry, philosophy, low brow slacker comedy, shamanism, Carl Jung, the psychedelic/mystical experience, mythology & oral storytelling, Agape, love, the depths of depression and heartbreak, and above all, the natural world.

Melissa Toomey

Artistic Statement

I write about adventures: the world(s) I have inhabited, the people, the outcasts, “crazy ones",” the gravely misunderstood, the mystical unknowns under the surface, and all that which is far stranger than fiction. The terrible decisions we make that end up setting us free. The ways we try and fail to connect. The moments where we risk everything. The terrible cost of telling our stories. The spirits and spiritual. The times we speak to the gods and the times we become them. Magic as realism. The mystical in the mundane. The Divine Feminine. Our childlike wonder. That step we take alone into the unknown.

I am inspired by music, poetry, philosophy, low brow slacker comedy, shamanism, Carl Jung, the psychedelic/mystical experience, mythology & oral storytelling, Agape, love, the depths of depression and heartbreak, and above all, the natural world.