Krista Bursey

✨ The Painting Process of “The Cycle of Water” for the photoshoot with the luminous ✨

For this series, I created the painted backdrop entirely by hand — beginning outdoors with spray cans, letting scale, wind, and gesture guide the first layer… then bringing it indoors to refine the atmosphere with an airbrush, building depth, mist, and movement.

The backdrop was conceived as a living environment — fluid, shifting, and elemental.
Water as memory.
Water as transformation.
Water as a body that shapeshifts, freezes, melts, and returns again ♾️

The painting became a stage for Velma’s evolution — a world she could emerge from, dissolve into, and command. A meeting point between drag, painting, fantasy, and ritual.

💧 Shapeshifter
🧊 States of becoming
♾️ Forever in motion

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This collaboration is a dream team of Montréal artists — representing how we do it here. The highest elevation and support in our mastery, rising together through this ethereal, elemental transformation. Lifting the veil so all can feel the power of the Divine Feminine balanced with the Divine Masculine. I’m deeply honoured to be part of this creation — it’s everything I stand behind as a multidisciplinary artist.

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🎨 Painted backdrop:
🧚 Fairies: .thorris .mtl

Outfit design and embellishment: .mtl
Corset fabrication:
Hair: .wigs
Nails:
Stoning fairy: .thorris
Brainstorm fairy:
Glass skin mask:

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Here’s how I style the “Queen of Self” Leggings + Crop Top — wearable artwork crafted to move beyond the studio and into everyday life.

To anchor the look, I paired them with curated vintage treasures that allow the artwork to shine as the foundation of the full outfit:

• 🖤 Vintage leather boots (size 7) — grounded + timeless
• 🔵 Royal blue suede skirt (size 6–8) — rich texture that deepens the visual story
• 🕊️ Fitted Off-White designer blazer (size small) — sharp structure, elevated silhouette
• 🜂 Silk Pierre Cardin scarf — soft luxury, framing the upper body with flow + colour

The leggings carry the narrative, so layering them with strong shapes, saturated tones, and refined materials creates a harmony between art and fashion. This outfit shifts effortlessly from studio → street, ceremony → city.

These pieces are designed as statement layers—build around them, follow the colour story, and let texture bring the artwork to life on the body.

⚙️ THE TECHNICAL SIDE

✔️ High-definition sublimation from the original painting
✔️ Made in Montréal with REPREVE® recycled fiber (12–15 bottles per pair)
✔️ Soft peach-skin interior
✔️ High waist + V-shaped seams for a sculpted, flattering fit
✔️ Ultra-opaque • 4-way stretch • moisture-wicking
✔️ Limited Edition of 22 pairs

✨ A styled moment.
✨ A wearable artwork.
✨ A reminder to walk in your own sovereignty.

👑 Queen of Self Leggings
✨ Limited edition — link in bio.

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Forged under the Super Blood Moon, this Kitsune rises in crimson light and lunar shadow—freehanded live at the Art Tattoo Montréal Convention. Ink shifted into ritual, calling in transformation, protection, and deeper embodied power.

In Japanese mythology, the Kitsune is a shapeshifter of intuition and thresholds—
a guardian spirit of mischief, magic, and the in-between.

The Blood Moon opens its own portal: an eclipse of shadow and flame, a moment for truth, shedding, and ignition—a time to meet the shadow self, welcome it into our field, and use its momentum to rise and manifest what we’re meant to hold in this realm.

Cherry blossoms weave their own quiet message through the piece: the reminder that life is fleeting, delicate, and worth meeting with presence—beauty held lightly, change embraced fully.

Together, Kitsune, Blood Moon, and blossom become a talisman of metamorphosis—myth, magic, and intention fused in flesh.

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✨ A curated winter gathering of vintage clothing, standout pieces, and nostalgic holiday style.

Bazar Vintage MTL is Back in Rosemont!
Édition Vintage Christmas Market 🎅🏼🎄✨

🗓️ December 6
ONE-DAY ONLY — Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM

📍 St-Jean Berchmans Church
• 5945 rue Cartier
• 5940 Chabot Street
Montreal–Rosemont

🎈 Free Admission
🚇 Rosemont 🧡 or Papineau 💚

Discover the vintage gems awaiting you — every piece featured in this reel will be available at the market ✨🖤

✨ A curated winter gathering of vintage clothing, standout pieces, and nostalgic holiday style.

Bazar Vintage MTL is Back in Rosemont!
Édition Vintage Christmas Market 🎅🏼🎄✨

🗓️ December 6
ONE-DAY ONLY — Saturday, 10 AM to 5 PM

📍 St-Jean Berchmans Church
• 5945 rue Cartier
• 5940 Chabot Street
Montreal–Rosemont

🎈 Free Admission
🚇 Rosemont 🧡 or Papineau 💚

Discover the vintage gems awaiting you — every piece featured in this reel will be available at the market! Come talk tattoos, try on amazing clothes, lets dance around!! ✨🖤

A Dryad Fairy emerging in a sweep of ethereal lines and untamed botanical forms—created for a young witch honouring the ancestral magic shared with her grandmother.
Rooted in ancient lore, the Dryad is a forest spirit bound to trees and the wild feminine, a guardian of intuition, growth, and metamorphosis.
Myth and anatomy intertwine—her presence both hushed and otherworldly, echoing a lineage of witchcraft and feminine power.
Soft gradients drift like forest light, shifting between elegance and wild magic, mirroring her awakening to the divine feminine.
An apparition rendered in pigment, poised between reality and ritual, carrying her inherited strength forward.
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