Yanina Salerno

ARTIST STATEMENT


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By virtue of my background in spirituality and mysticism, my creative process begins with radical embodied awareness and deep contemplation to allow inspiration and energy to flow. My work is spirit-led and I am simply a vessel taking action to intuitively and organically construct the object. With this free-form approach to creating, I am able to remain unfettered from self-limiting perceptions and to expand into limitless possibilities in my creative process.


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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY


Yanina Camenschic Salerno was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1977. She and her family migrated to Atlanta, Georgia just before her fifth birthday, where she would spend the next 27 years of her life. It was through influences from her grandfather, a prized inventor with an inspiring connection to the natural world, and her mother, a mystic and tarot reader, that she would discover her life’s work.

With interests such as Re-Wilding, Deep Ecology and Eco-spirituality, Yanina Salerno Designs’ mission is to inspire community to ethically and compassionately reconnect and heal relations with our more-than-human world by co-creating nature-inspired, sacred, sentient objects that serve as medicine pieces, or Artes- an e...

Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Program- Metals

Small Wonders, Small Works Exhibition TC Arts Council at 349 S Caldwell St, Brevard, NC 28712

Piedmont Triad International Airport Walking Art Tour Exhibition 2020-2021