We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dilcia Giron. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dilcia below.

Alright, Dilcia thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

It would be, leaving everything behind! My home, family, friends, culture and moving to the USA, without having nothing. It was very difficult and painful, but I kept pushing through. It never gets easy for an immigrant, specially for a female immigrant like me. Resilience is not something we’re born with, but built over time through our experiences.

As a female immigrant, I face a variety of obstacles in this country, everyday: microaggressions, bias, discrimination, etc. is exhausting, and many times you feel like throwing away the towel and giving up. But I refuse to give up, and continue to get up everyday, to do art, to work and fight back all the prejudices.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am an artist, an explorer of new meanings and ways to experience this journey we call life. I don’t limit myself to one way of expression and refuse to label my style. I prefer to be open to the experience and the opportunity. I feel there is so much the can be missed if lock myself in a category. I like to take risks with my art, and experiment with new forms of expression and styles constantly.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Unlearning is what drives me to art. Is by expressing and creating that I look to challenge preconceived ideas about art and life in general. I don’t like to settle with answers, I always look for another view, another perspective that hasn’t been considered yet.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

The idea that there are right-brained and left-brained people, and some are more creative than other is a myth. We are all creatives. Of course we have different skills, personalities, and develop different interests, but we are all using our creative and analytic brain to function. The brain is like a muscle, if you spend more time being creative, then you develop that aspect of yourself more, and the same goes for the analytic brain.
People shouldn’t restrain themselves from trying something new, based on the false idea that they are not artist or analytics.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.dilciagiron.com
• Instagram: @dilciagironart
• Facebook: @Dilcia Giron Mixed Media Art
• Linkedin: @DilciaGironart
• Twitter: @dilciagironsf
• Youtube: Dilcia Giron Mixed Media Art
• Other: TikTok: DilciaGironArt