The Story of Miranda Strange.
Miranda's World
Miranda Strange is a fictional character I created years ago -- a poet and video artist who never left her home and whose boyfriend was an avocado. Miranda was strange.
The SEPARATION collection has been getting the better of me. I'll sit for hours in front of one (or more) of the orange canvases and fret about what to do. Finally I'll add an element and immediately hate it.
It started to dawn on me that this series is me channeling Miranda Strange again. Creative, unsure, indecisive, yearning, hopeless, dreaming about what could be and afraid of experiencing it because it will never be as good as it is in her mind. Safer to stay tucked away in her imagined world than go out into it.
Miranda's world is chaotic. It doesn't exist in linear time or logical thought. It changes with her moods and every time a sound, sight or smell stimulates her senses. She has a strong voice. She's famous, brilliant, insightful, vulnerable as long as no one sees her and she's talking to her own hand.
To acknowledge my frustration with the SEPARATION collection I changed my intention. These, for now, are the cityscape Miranda sees when she imagines the world beyond her window. Now she needs to push back the blinds.