LINA VALENTINA
Words: Candies Deezy Liu
Photography: Danny Gagliano
As a kid, Lina Valentina was always sketching and drawing. Though she has had a
passion for art in some form or another her entire life, she never thought it would be her
career. “Painting is an outlet for my feelings and releasing stress,” Lina says. Two major
events in her life caused her to pursue art seriously.
When her grandmother passed away, Lina couldn’t leave the country to attend her
funeral because she just moved to America. This traumatic event led her to obsessively
drawing in a desperate attempt to g