Lavi Picu

Lavi Picu is a Romanian - Canadian writer and blogger, majored in Linguistics, with a background in translations and writing. She's also a a visual artist with a focus on health and arts. After being diagnosed with Lyme disease, she started an awareness online campaign which reached people from various countries.

Using acrylics and poetry as her mediums, she explores the prejudices against women, the pressure and set expectations of the society on women of all ages. She tries to voice the struggle of living with an invisible illness and to educate people to recognize it.

Her figurative artworks (portraits) illustrate the invisible symptoms of Lyme disease, while her abstract paintings invite the viewer to a journey of pain, throughout the human body., at a macro level. Her unique style and technique enable her to create visually engaging 3D artworks.

Her poems and paintings aim to awake people, make them look for deeper meanings, scratch under the surface. Her works offer glimpses of the human life cycle and its intricate relationships.

As an artist, Lavi Picu is interested in creating artworks that serve a multiple purpose: aesthetic, inspirational, reflective by challenging the conventional ideas of the society.

You can read more about her works on her website: lavipicu.com or on her Facebook LaviPicuArt page.