Juliana Porotsky is a visual artist originally from Moscow who now makes her home in Monte Estoril, Portugal. Her career prior to moving to Portugal from Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2021 was at once richly varied and characterized by an unwavering focus on applied aesthetic artistry, expressed in part through interior design, fashion, ceramics, and flower design. She was cofounder of Clean Slate NYC, an interior design firm. She launched the first-ever Versace accessories showroom in Manhattan. As a founder and owner of Kebon Home, she designed and imported Moroccan-style lamps and lighting fixtures. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Juliana closed Clean Slate and dedicated herself to a new passion: creating art, not interiors. Her first medium was alcohol ink, with which she conjured extraordinary floral dreamscapes and otherwordly organic abstractions. Simultaneously, she began almost obsessively filling her art journals with experiments in collage and mixed-media compositions, developing and honing both her technique, and a style and sensibility packed with whimsy, discovery, and visual impact. When she applied what she had learned in the pages of those “junk journals” to the grander, yet somehow more constraining surface of the stretched canvas, what emerged was her current series of mixed-media collages, “Reclaimed Art.”