I’m Elinore Nova Liorna 19 years old, the artist behind Elysx.







I grew up within the child welfare system — in foster homes, institutions. Those years shaped how I see the world: raw, unstable, but full of strange beauty. Art became the only place where I could make sense of chaos, where pain could turn into color, and movement could mean freedom.



Living with complex PTSD and emotional unstable personality disorder has taught me that emotion isn’t something to hide — it’s a force that builds, destroys, and rebuilds again. My work is an exploration of that process: the transformation of damage into expression, and of survival into creation.



Growing up in the system meant constant change — new walls, new people, new versions of myself. Each piece I create is a fragment of that story: the anger, the tenderness, the instability, and the healing that grows quietly underneath it all.



My practice is deeply emotional and psychological — shaped by an emotionally unstable mind that never stops feeling. I make art to understand what words can’t hold. Every work is an act of rebuilding — a reminder that beauty often grows out of the places we thought were broken.