"These thickly textured painted reliefs and objects are metaphors for the layers of the human character. My works' dense surfaces reflect the need to unravel the mysteries of mind, body & spirit.
These paintings and reliefs depict hybrid creatures or human beings in transition or eruption, ranging from frightening to whimsical. The portraits are swirling masses of personal realities, coexisting with tangible traits. At times they struggle to merge and connect, sometimes colliding as they search for autonomy. If I could reach inside of a body and extract fragments, memories, and nightmares of a soul, I would transplant these as facades on a form. They would mingle and join with mystery, pulsate, attempt to be beautiful and breathe. They would mimic being alive."
Heads and Faces
"... face on a head (melting in a head) ...head with faces stretched
on it, retreating in it ...faces yelling at heads with heads dripping
layers of face ...Landscapes hidden inside the face (fragments unravel
out the head) objects or paintings"
- Michelle Stone, 2008
Installation, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Illinois: acrylic, modeling paste and plaster 2007-08