Melissa Pokorny specializes in creating large scale, assemblage-based sculptural works. She explains the inspiration for her work comes from controversies and ideas about gender roles, the public and private spheres, and he nature/ culture divide. She uses topics that effect everyday life but may be more hidden than what a general perception might recognize. She is currently taking inspiration from "'things' as potent containers of memory, capably representing loss and estrangement, and the deeply haunted landscape of the everyday" (Pokorny). She highlights attributes and features of what may be looked-over as mundane by working with different sizes and ratios of objects with the goal of breaking the barrier between the animate and inanimate.