Melissa Weiss Steele's work continues
 the tradition of women artists who
 have used their own bodies as the
primary vessels for their artistic 
expression.  Ana Mendieta,
Anne Brigman, Joyce Tenneson, 
Julie Rrap, & Francesca Woodman 
are all artists who used 
photographic self-portraiture
to examine identity & relationship
through the camera lens.

 Melissa is currently completing
her first divination deck, 
The Oracle of Initiation,
incorporating images from her
Painted Body series.  She lives in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.