by Fabio Fabbo

A marvelous technician, Winston Miranda has a great knack for surprise and a bold sense of composition. A true artist, Miranda isn’t a slave to any one idea or style, he is always investigating his own technical ability and vivid imagination. Miranda has excelled with classical still life’s in the vain of Henri Fantin Latour, mixed media, realism and today is working in a style closest to surrealism.

Using Nicaragua’s rich and colorful backdrops, Miranda daringly overlays robust still life forms. Layering upon windows that explore different shadows, reflections and distortions, Miranda includes forms such as fruit, apparitions and themes current to Nicaragua. With these platforms he explores the minutia of different light and shadows. His priority and pre-occupation, his family, also make subtle appearances. This is fertile ground for Miranda’s attention to detail and still life precision. His bright and lively current work entices the viewer into a dialogue questioning the boundaries of what we assume is real.