Delana is an artist currently based in Greater Boston, MA. Family, relationships, the human body and its implications are major inspirations to all of my work. Having grown up in California, Kyrgyzstan, Austria, and many places in between, I was immersed at a young age in so many rich cultural and artistic traditions. These experiences greatly influence the way that I make and thinks about my art practice.

My current work explores the boundaries between self and others. The resilience and vulnerability demanded from people in relationship. What does it mean for two individuals to become one whole? When think of this phrase, I feel it requires an understanding of a halved existence and the ache for completion. I also feel this underlying violence and danger inherent in true intimacy and vulnerability. The closer we are, the more we have the capacity to hurt each other, the fear of knowing that there is a person in the world with so much understanding of you that they could utterly ruin you, and the thrill of giving that power away, lovingly doing so. I’m fascinated by this possible exchange of pain, the question of permanence that marriage supposedly answers and the fear of returning to an fragmented, halved state because if you weren’t afraid of loss, you wouldn’t really want to stay found.