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Drawing on the symbolic storytelling of magical realism, her pieces carry a playful or contemplative touch: birds thinking, bees working, cats daydreaming. Quiet myths and imagined narratives, made luminous through encaustic beeswax, damar tree resin, and colored pigment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--darkAccent\"\u003eThe Process\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEach piece begins with a visual daydream - something beautiful, impossible, absurd, emotionally resonant, or quietly political. Using her own photographs and digitally generated imagery as raw material, Dominique creates a digital collage in Photoshop: cutting, layering, and reshaping fragments of figures, landscapes, and objects - drawn from photographs, licensed stock imagery, and digitally generated visuals - into a unique compositional foundation. These source elements are altered, unmoored, and recombined until the original materials become something entirely her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting image is printed with archival pigment ink, mounted to a wood panel, and remade by hand: watercolor, charcoal, pencil, oil pastel, and encaustic - a luminous blend of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment - applied in layers and fused with heat. Once cooled, the surface is carved, incised, and textured, revealing layers beneath and adding depth and dimension. The result is a wholly handmade work of art - shaped by touch, intuition, and close attention - balancing encaustic’s smooth luminosity with texture, incised line, reflection and shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-hush-falls-over-laguna-street-as-the-overture-ends-dominique-gustin","title":"\"A Hush Falls Over Laguna Street as the Overture Ends\" - Dominique Gustin","description":"\u003cp\u003e#3 of 3. 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