Melody Owen aka Pearl Hyacinth is an artist from Portland, Oregon and represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She is currently an art practice based PhD student in social creative virtual worlds and zoosemiotics at the UNSW in Sydney, Australia. Her mediums include hand cut and digital collage, curation, video, photography, 3D building in and for VR, and site-specific installation. She has exhibited, curated and participated in artist residencies around the world for the last two decades.