To lift the soul through the art.
My name is Marianne, I paint under the pseudonym Mira T. A passionate artist by the
expression of the soul through my creations. From an early age, I have always felt the
deep necessity of expressing myself through the art, of capturing emotions, feelings and
ideas in every piece of art that I make.
My artistic procedure is fixed in searching the truth and the authenticity. Every
brushstroke, every pencil stroke, every composition is the reflection of my “interior me”,
my experiences, my dreams and aspirations. Every piece of art is an invitation to explore
the deep of the human soul, to arouse emotions, to provoke questions and to inspire
thoughts. Through my portraits, I look forward to broadcasting a universal message, to
create bridges between individuals, to awake the sensibility and conscience of everyone.
My art is a silent, but powerful language, an invitation to contemplation, to meditation
and to the connection with our biggest and deepest essence.
When I began painting my first white-collar woman, I felt transformed, in levitation,
transported into another world. I felt that I was hitting my soul’s heart. It was a strange
feeling, almost allegorical, that was giving live to my oneiric thoughts. This ecstasy, I
find her every time I take the brush, every time I dive into this subject thar comes alive
in my canvas. I paint leaning over my canvas, I fly over it as if I was a puppet…I stain
myself, I stain my canvas. These women, my women, I discover them while I put them
in my canvas. However, I have been thinking of them long time. Dressed in a white-
collar, small or straight, long or pliable. It is the distinctive and metaphoric sign of
manpower, placed in the elite of society.
Dressing my women means searching for freedom, emancipation, to let them have power
and magnify them. I have always looked at them with fascination: the process, the
achievement, the fight. I believe there is nothing more beautiful, the gentleness, the
strength, the sensibility, the constraints of society. My women’s soul slip away, from
evanescence in toughness,from black to pink, to red; I love playing with the senses, their
hair is like a cotton candy, like a cloud or a mist. It’s a mix between realism and
inebriation; of poetry, obscurity and tenderness. It is deep, it ascends in me, the colors
appear, they take shape, they move, they dance ant they settle. Frequently, people make
the remark about the look, about the eyes of my women, they say they are deep,
harrowing, biting and dark as I have, with captivity and penetrant. It is not said that theeyes are the reflection of the soul? Those eyes are a loan of melancholy, they reflect an
introspection of the research elsewhere, of beyond or an after, but, which after? It could
be an after of a place, of a time where women would be considered, not as a being apart,
but as a whole, a particular being who we can study in its deep and legitimate entity.
In my paintings, the body can seem shield with a sheath, between a box and a straitjacket.
As they do not unveil completely their highlights or their contours, they keep a sort of
captivating and emotional mystery. Painting has a cathartic effect on me. I am free and
that feeling is amazing. I crack my soul on a ledge of joy. There is nothing more beautiful
than that. It is exhilarating. Participating in this artistic competition, Ihope that I can share
with you all my vision, my artistic universe and my engagement towards the expression
of the soul trough the art. It is with humility and passion that I present my artwork hoping
that they would know how to touch the hearts and souls of whom who contemplate them.
I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity of sharing with you my artistic
process.
