Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 4

May 15, 2012 by  
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I feel lucky to be back in my hometown of Montmagny this year for mother's day spending time with two wonderful women. My mother and my grand-mother are both very special and important people in my life. I have always considered them best friends as well as family. Montmagny is a very popular hunting town [...]

Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 2

May 2, 2012 by  
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I was reading a very interesting article analysing the ‘Instagram obsession’ and the nostalgia that comes with it. Some people are dubbing the application “the Auto-Tune of photography”. Others say that it is tapping into the sense “that a photograph is itself a precious object”. I find this statement quite intriguing as artist like myself [...]

Melissa Mercier: Dextrophobia – Fear of things to the right side of the body

November 28, 2011 by  
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A music box should represent comfort, security, hope and dreams, but if you suffer from dextrophobia and it’s placed on the right side of your body even this innocent children’s toy becomes unbearable. People who suffer from this phobia fear anything placed on their right side. Odd, but true. I find this phobia very unusual. [...]