George Voronovsky: maker of memoryscapes
Journal: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
Year: 2023

In 1972, Ukrainian-born self-taught artist George Voronovsky permanently moved from Philadelphia to Miami, taking up long-term residence in a room on the third floor of the Colony Hotel with a window that overlooked a beautiful stretch of South Beach.Over the next decade, he filled his small space with hundreds of artworks, covering his walls with dense mosaics of paintings and hand-carved Styrofoam sculptures (Figure 1).Rainbow flowers cut from tin cans burst from the layered surfaces of the wa