Anna Polistuk

Psychedelic Artist

There is this space inside, that we visit in dreams, visions, and deep meditations, that is the most truthful and satisfying part of our experience of self. It's like touching our soul, our own wildness, our connection to the divine. Though that world feels in-between, surreal, dreamlike, I believe it is the larger reality. I believe that our day-to-day perception is limited by our brain’s adeptness at logic and routine pattern learning. We learn to function in the environment through our selective perception of what is there. Our world simplified and de-complexified for increased efficiency.

Most of the time our connection to that larger mystical space is fleeting, an ethereal memory just beyond our grasp. But those moments we are able to connect to it are powerful and can resonate through our regular life like an earthquake, restructuring our perceptions here. Inspiring transformational change.

My work is about that mystical space. I am fascinated and inspired by it. I believe it is the answer to much of what we are searching for, that answer to that vague sensation that our lives are not full enough, that we aren’t living our correct path, or that something just isn’t right. I am trying to access i...

Anna Polistuk is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work is informed by her study of states of consciousness and visionary experiences. After studying psychology and anthropology at The University of Western Ontario, she has spent the last decade training in meditation, yoga, hypnosis, trance, and plant and elemental based folk practices, while also spending months each year in the parks and wild spaces of North America. She works with the human interaction with wilderness and how it informs our visionary states and sense of self. Along the way, she has also studied Set and Costume Design at the National Theatre School of Canada and Photography and Film Production at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).