Focusing on issues of identity, visionary experiences and inner states as physical relationship with the environment, her work is often, in subtle way, that of a person who has had to keep their life and their knowledge secret.
Born into the epicenter of the consciousness movement in a house on North Venice Blvd. in Venice Beach, California in 1977 and raised between Los Angeles and the wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest north of the Ojai Valley, Attasalina's art is a fusion of the urban experience and the insights afforded by the natural world. Focusing on issues of identity, visionary experiences and inner states as physical relationship with the environment, her work is often, in subtle way, that of a person who has had to keep their life and their knowledge secret.