We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Miranda Torres. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Miranda below.

Alright, Miranda thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I was born and raised protected and loved unconditionally. For that, I am ever-grateful-but now in my 27th year, I feel the true heaviness of the blanket I still bare to this day..

As an artist, I long for more-for it all. I watch others from a screen or from a near and far distance and I ponder: “Is that the life for me, as well? What will I become? What have I already become? Am I complete?” I have these constant inner conflicts as a pansexual woman and a modern artist in 2022.

I am ever lost-but with my art amongst me-I have the key within reach or perhaps it is already in my grasp..

When 2020 first occurred with all of the events that resided within it-I truly felt a suffocating burden and crippling fear. Was this the rest of my life? Was I meant to force myself into contentment with what has already happened in my life in the past? Am I simply to accept the scenario I find myself in now for the entirety of my existence? What will become of the world and who I am within it? These questions haunted and taunted me day and night as I sat and paced alone in my “safe haven.”

As the year passed in a few (several) blinks of tears, I finally came to my senses. I took a deep breath and stepped out of my self-made barricades of comfort. In the beginning of 2021, the world was new to me again and I was finally ready to take every possible risk I could within reason to fulfill my desires and dreams. I met others alike who became lovers, friends, colleagues and even enemies. I had heart aches that made me feel much more than I would have ever imagined, I had loss that made me want to thrash and clammer at the hands disappearing. I collaborated with colleagues who put hope and new found pride into my heart and soul for the work space I occupied daily. I made enemies who, to this day and for forever, I wish could see my beating heart in my hands so they may understand how bare I make myself to them and anyone who I may clash with. For all of this chaos and disaster-I would not change a single thing.

When I finally reconnected with my art, I felt it to be a true risk-because I knew that everything festering deep inside my psyche would relinquish all control of my emotions, thoughts and visions. My current and foreseeable future traumas, memories and ideals were eager to wreak havoc within my art. I was overwhelmed and I struggle to this day to control my urgency to exhale all of my inner demons and angels onto my pure blank canvases. I do not hold back when I paint or create now-everything will be displayed and I refuse to let myself or anyone stand in between my artistic voice and my itch to tell share my stories and my everlasting journey.

Now, in 2022. I hold myself with wavering strength and hold true to my current nature of taking every risk I possibly can that will assist me in my goals. wants and desires. As an artist with these traits, I do still of course have many insecurities and uncertainties-but those trials are what make me feel the tingles in my fingertips. Those tingles and emotions help remind me that I am truly alive. I am in this world as a breathing, living entity intended to do just that; live..

To take risks, at least for me myself and I, is to live and breathe.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

My art resides and comes from the deep center of my psyche and soul. Without art, I feel utterly lost. I began as a small girl-brought up by many mentors alike. To this day I create art through the inspirations and motivations of the many things I experience in my life. I manage a media brand, MIRPANDA WORKS, through social avenues and create for my own therapeutic purposes and for others to see my displays of my stories and everlasting journey.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The most rewarding aspect to being an artist is being able to create and release my inner demons and angels and being able to conquer them fully with the visual depictions I find them on within my canvases. It is even more rewarding to be able to share my creations and visions with those around me. I then no longer feel isolated and tortured by those forces..

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I had to unlearn sheltering myself from everything and everyone around me. I now accept and welcome all with understanding, love, and empathy that also has a genuine soul likewise to mine.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://mirandapandatorres.blogspot.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirpanda_works/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIRPANDAWORKS
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-torres-15b049157/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW97gs99qgOwM6YBWEVe5Ew
• Other: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mirpandaworks/shop