Meghann Stephenson’s paintings balance elegance and unease, using precise, cinematic stillness to explore identity, femininity, and the tension between control and vulnerability. In The Headless and Heartless, a woman’s back is rendered with the calm of classical portraiture, yet a void opens at her center—a hollow cut into the flesh revealing a clouded sky. The image directly echoes the same cloud that drifts through Dalí’s The God of the Bay of Roses, turning a surreal emblem of divine creation into a quiet meditation on interior life. Where Dalí’s figure stands monumental and mythic, Stephenson’s sits introspective and human. Her void is not divine absence but emotional transparency—the landscape of feeling itself exposed.