Migrating to the Surface Towards Enlightenment B (green) with the joy and passion

with the joy and passion of the creative process

or soul floating out among the stars

Miranda pulls from the island's literature

which for a brief period were derived and based on gardens in Indian and Persian miniature painting

all you have to do is see it and to use it

Migrating to the Surface Towards Enlightenment B (green) with the joy and passionMigrating to the Surface, 2003 Offset Lithograph Edition of 46 21 1 2 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Marion Beaumont La Vaughn Belle lives and works in the Virgin Islands, a place that has changed colonial hands seven times, most recently passing from Denmark to the United States in 1917. That history, of a land and its people repeatedly claimed, renamed, and reordered by outside forces, runs through everything she makes. Her practice spans drawing,