Luminous Bodies is a work of celebration and mourning in two volumes of 45 watercolors in each volume. These images explore the spiritual and cultural forces that continuously vie to originate and then heal the rift between the body and the soul. Peter Trippi, editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine states, "In an art market crowded with hollow protestations of "self-identity," Melinda Camber Porter's works offer us a new cosmology and an authentic...