About This Substack

UNSEEN by Stephanie Dillon

Welcome to Unseen—a space for the quiet truths, the sacred scars, and the stories we don’t always say out loud.

I’m Stephanie Dillon, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and survivor who has spent the last decade turning personal wreckage into public art. After a breast cancer diagnosis reshaped my life, I began creating work that doesn’t just ask to be looked at—it asks to be felt. From galleries in Madrid to street corners in Minneapolis, my art has always been about what lives beneath the surface.

This Substack is an extension of that work. A space for fragments, essays, poems, and provocations that don’t fit neatly into squares or sound bites. Here, I share raw reflections on pain, reinvention, femininity, power, grief, and the complicated miracle of survival.

If you’ve ever felt invisible in your suffering, misnamed in your strength, or beautifully broken in your becoming, this is for you.

What You’ll Find Here:

• Poetry that bleeds and breathes

• Essays on art, identity, and healing

• Musings on what it means to be deeply human

• Visual art and behind-the-scenes process

• Dispatches from my studio and the road

• Notes on creativity, culture, and the politics of presence

This isn’t a newsletter. It’s a reckoning.
With the systems that silence us.
With the stories we’ve outgrown.
With the parts of ourselves we’re still learning how to love.

Subscribe if you want to be part of something honest, raw, and relentlessly real.

—Stephanie