This work is part of a special thematic group of "cantinas" (pulquerias), in which the compositions are closely related by similar elements and bar-room scenes. The earlier works, Voy más a mi, El Atorón, A ver que Sale and Salón Cantina La Oficina all exhibit an evident sarcastic undertone which is sustained in Orozco's 1930s oils. The color drawing used to illustrate the book The Glories of Venus by Susan Smith and the 1935 lithographs Echate la Otra are the precursors of Mi Delirio, El Gran Pato and Turistas y Aztecas. In the oils Parnaso Mexica con Catrinas de Pulque, 1944, and Mi Delirio, (1940-42) Orozco places emphasis on the image of natives under the influence of pulque, some of them engaged in syncretic ceremonies-still taking place today . In Mi Delirio Orozco masterly portrays a festive and tragicomic vision of the anacronic and unreal.

Clemente Orozco V.
Guadalajara, August 1995


Mi Delirio is registered under archive number 3535.