Elayna Alexandra Flodin is an award-winning artist who creates out of her home studio in Arizona. She believes that art is a powerful medium for communication, self-knowledge, and healing. Elayna also feels that this expression of creativity should be a part of every day life. After twenty-two plus surgeries for her disability Pseudarthrosis, she knows that finding a voice, which she has found through art, and using it to express oneself and connect with outers is part of what makes our lives valuable and important. Flodin works to create digital archival prints in a process of combing layers of her own photography, artwork and personal x-rays through Photoshop. She also dabbles in acrylic, watercolor, oils and many other mixed medias. In Flodin’s artwork she exposes the hidden parts of life and draws attention to life’s many layers and complexity bringing softness to hardness and beauty to trauma.

Elayna Alexandra Flodin was born with Congenital Pseudarthrosis of her left tibia, and later developed an ankle deformity and hip displaysia. She has had twenty-two plus surgeries on her left leg and more then ten braces over her lifetime. Her tibia is healed now, through the use of the illzarov device the bone bowing was straighten and the bone healed. Since the first time it healed with the illzarov it has only broken once. She has undergone two foot/ankle reconstruction surgeries and has had a full reconstruction of her left hip.