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An Argentinian artist Leandro Granato
made use of his eyes to paint. He has done this kind of method by
snorting the paint through his nose and push the paint out of his eye
socket. He uses 800 ml of paint for each piece. This talent of his was
discovered by him during his childhood. “Ever since I was a kid I knew I
had a special connection between my eye and my nose,” he explains. “As I
grew up I started realizing air and liquids could go out of my eye if I
put them through my nose.”
This is now new technique of painting
which he called eye-painting. “When I decided I would do this for a
living my whole family thought I was going crazy – as well as many other
people”, says the artist. But he prove them wrong and now, each of his
artwork are sold for $2,400. Each artwork can take him between 10
minutes and 10 months to finish.
According
to him, the artist Jackson Pollok is his biggest inspiration. Pollok is
known for his abstract works using the drip technique. Granato says
“Jackson Pollock is one of my inspirations mainly because at first
nobody understood him, and he was pointed out to be crazy.” But it
wasn’t until the death of his grandfather that he actually began
exercising his artistic talents as a coping mechanism. He says that “My
motivation to become an artist first came when my grandfather died
because of cancer” adding that “After this loss, I started painting to
overcome this pain.”
“Some say I’m crazy, but my technique doesn’t hurt my body,” Leandro Granato explains,
adding that “I’m constantly being examined by expert doctors, and the
formula I came up with is harmless. It will not cause me any health
problems in the future.”
