portrait
generative art
00:40
2025
Melissa DiVietri, or Blue Eye Queen, is an artist, advocate, and builder. Born with a rare condition that affects her spine and mobility, she learned how to endure, how to rebuild, and how to create her own door when none were open by shaping her pain into color, movement, and presence. Melissa's abstract paintings carry the weight of survival and the light of resilience, each layer holds memory, ache, victory, faith, and the discipline of getting up again. Meant to be felt, not analyzed, her work is emotional, physical, and invites connection. Earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering allowed her to develop the technical foundations which influence her creations —from the layout of her studio for independent mobility, to the layered composition of canvases. Beyond her art practice, Melissa develops automated bot systems and AI-driven language tools, using technology as a bridge for education, support, community-building, and accessibility. For her, creativity is not confined to canvas; it is a structure, a network, a movement.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and public spaces like Detroit, Miami, Colombia, Bali, and also in digital and metaverse environments, where art becomes borderless and accessible. In addition to exhibitions, Melissa has collaborated with both grassroots organizations and global brands such as Yuga Labs, TedX, Google, Mazda, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi, where she bridges creativity, storytelling, and accessibility with digital innovation.

This piece reflects the tenderness in accepting every part of your journey, even the pieces that once felt too heavy to hold. There’s beauty in admitting that life didn’t go as planned but somehow still shaped you into someone capable of love and depth. When I created this, I felt a quiet peace in embracing everything that brought me here. Sometimes ownership is its own kind of healing.
Medium: Handmade non-toxic acrylic painting, transformed with generative AI, abstract expressionism
generative art
portrait
00:40
2025