With over ten years of oil painting experience, Miranda has honed her craft as a painter and portrait artist. Starting at the age of 14, she found that paint could supplement where words lacked. What began as a practice of self-reflection and expression turned into an exploration into human stories. Her work focuses on the individual, capturing the intimate scenes and inner-workings of people within their broader world.

Along with her passion for art, Miranda is also engaged with the world of ideas. She graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a BA in Political Science, then went on to get her MA (ABD) in Political Theory at University of California, Davis. She wrote her thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Leo Tolstoy’s conceptions of the the practice of Nonresistance as an alternative source of meaning that reduces the alienating effects of nihilism as brought about by modernity.

Now, Miranda combines painting with her intellectual interests, using the history of political thought to inform her work. By infusing her visual work with important philosophical questions and debates, she hopes to emphasize the importance and beauty of philosophical inquiry.