Biography

Lydia Cecilia (they/she) is a queer, non-binary interdisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from the intertwined journeys of healing, resistance, and sacred transformation. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Lydia navigates the world through a neurodivergent lens — shaped by ADHD, autistic traits, and a fierce commitment to queerness as both identity and political act.

Their creative work reclaims body, wildness, memory, and future — weaving fragments into myth, ritual, and radical visibility. Through photography, digital collage, and symbolic landscapes, Lydia channels nonlinear perception, sensory sensitivity, and fluid identity into vivid terrains of becoming.

Originally trained in the sciences, Lydia’s early search for order transformed into an embrace of chaos, queerness, and neurodivergence — the true soil of their artistic freedom. Their practice challenges binaries, refuses erasure, and creates spaces where other untamed selves can bloom.

Across evolving bodies of work — including Bloom of the Witch and Marked by the Moon — Lydia invokes luminous figures adorned with florals, tattoos, and ancestral echoes. Each piece is an act of rebellion, tenderness, and hope: a ritual that insists on visibility, belonging, and sacred becoming.

Lydia believes that to bloom — queerly, wildly, neurodivergently — is to defy every system that told us to disappear. It is to remember: we were never wrong. We were always sacred.