Member Profile: Ana M. Delgado

closeI am an artist that is fascinated by the power of consciousness; particularly how dreams, memories, and the subconscious impacts one's perspective, even in waking life. While I’ve worked in a variety of creative mediums, my current artistic practices of choice are photography, drawing, and painting. As a Cuban- American, religious rituals, traditions, and folklore of my heritage is engrained with a unique combination of mysticism, spirituality, and sensuality, and such sentiments are reflected within my entire body of work. These intrinsic attributes of the fables, fairy tales, and fantasies from my youth have had profound influence on my perspective of reality and how I relate to people and places encountered in daily life. I see interdependent relationships existing between fantasy and reality, past memories and present happenings, the power of the conscious and subconscious imagination. As an artist, my intention is to bring these concepts into the concrete, creative plane and share my personal truths. “Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth. Things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities..“ Paul Klee!