Mestization is one of the primordial characteristics of Hispanic culture, and thanks to this quality, ancient cultures like our own acquire a continually renewed vigor. The sadly departed Ana Mendieta was a special case of cultural mestization. She knew how to blend the most advanced aspects of Anglo-Saxon art of the Seventies and Eighties with her profound Afro-Cuban roots, achieving an extraordinary symbiosis of her innermost feelings and the inadequacies of western culture. Her works clamor for ancient and forgotten links between beings and things, that modern knowledge is bent on destroying. Her creative urges and particular manner of formalizing them continue to prevail today.