Visceral Visions

Eleonora is a self-taught sustainable artist active since 2021 based in NYC. Her experience with art started during childhood: she grew up in Italy surrounded by beauty, history and she absorbed every inch of that beauty. Art has always been the fundamental nourishment of life for her and her family. Eleonora followed her creative nature and started working in NYC as a sustainable stylist and creative director in 2016. When the pandemic hit she found herself with a lot of free time and a lot of feelings to express. During quarantine orders online skyrocketed and so did the amounts of cardboard boxes that were piling up in the trash of her condo. Feeling trapped in the house and being going through the hardships of life she realized that trash was the actual solution: those cardboard boxes became the canvas of her art and her new life. For the first time she started painting with the only goal of letting emotions free repurposing waste in a creative way. It started as a hobby and soon became a therapeutic part of everyday life and eventually evolved in a whole collection of paintings. Eleonora’s creative process for her signature “visceral art” is rooted in feelings, it’s a trip into the deepest dreams, fears and desires. It all starts with the intention to silence the rational and critic mind and let intuition and the deeper self speak. There is never a preplanned painting: every painting is the pure expression of the here and now. After channeling the intention, she chooses the colors and then creates movements on the ‘canva’ in a very fast, spontaneous way without focusing on actual forms but rather deepening into the process in a trans-like meditative and compulsive state. Ones the paint is dry comes the moment to define what came out in the first stage: she draws black lines that highlight the movements of the paint strokes and keeps going more and more into detail, laser focusing on every area of the painting until there is nothing to add left. Only at that point the painting is complete and manifested. Eleonora’s paintings are painted Pollock’s style, they are executed and meant to be looked at from every angle and perspective. There is not a right way to look at it. What comes out of this process is an organic and abstract style that recalls visions and emotions. Her paintings remind of vibrant natural elements in an abstract way. Micro and micro cosmos, where all the elements are alive, transforming and connected. Every painting is unique and healing.