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.

There are years I wish I could return to, if only to hold myself a little closer. This piece was created from that ache—the longing to reclaim moments that slipped away too quickly. But in creating it, I realized that nothing is truly lost when we choose to live fully now. Every step forward becomes a quiet promise to ourselves that the future can still be beautiful.
Medium: Handmade non-toxic acrylic painting, transformed with generative AI, abstract expressionism
generative art
portrait
00:40
2025