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Diabla Talks: Miranda Makaroff

5 October, 2023

Miranda Makaroff is a multidisciplinary artist: she paints, designs, acts and sculpts. However, as a whole, she celebrates women and gives life to their pleasures and desires in vivid colors. This artist defies traditional conventions and delves into a visual universe without restrictions, repressions, or censorship, garnering over half a million followers on Instagram alone. A universe that travels as much as she does, and that has been exhibited in Miami Art Basel, as well as in galleries in Madrid and Ibiza.

What makes the daughter of a designer and a musician a multidisciplinary artist?
I believe that we are a generation motivated by nourishing itself with different fields and disciplines in order to have a life full of stimuli and new adventures. It’s really fun to learn and try out different passions and be able to develop them.
Lydia Delgado, your mother, said that you two are as close as ever, excited in your own magical world. Is she one of your greatest muses?
Absolutely 100%. My mother is the one who taught me all the things I know today and who I spent the most time with. As a child we painted together, we spent hours talking, she would talk to me about fashion, wonderful places, she would show me amazing books and I remember those times with tenderness. To this day, for me, my mother means elegance, good taste, delicacy as well as the example of eternal youth and liveliness. My mother has taught me the importance of keeping your inner child alive in order to never stop playing, even if you are older.
Among your many facets, there is the designer. Are design, fashion or decoration your way of expressing feelings without words?
Well, I think what I like most is to paint and to create with my hands. My dream would be to decorate hotels, design furniture and create spaces. Fashion design is what motivates me the least nowadays. Something that I have recently become fond of and I genuinely enjoy is photography.
You say that humor is the best vitamin against adversity. Is it also an essential ingredient in your art and designs?
Humor is something that sometimes we forget and that sometimes can even begin to bother us and, for that I believe that there is nothing better than laughing at yourself to alleviate the obstacles. All the teachers I follow and listen to talk endlessly about the importance of laughing and having a good sense of humor, and that’s how I like to live life and friendship.
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Claudio, the cat, accompanies you in your day to day. In fact, you once said that you always wanted to be the cat lady. What does this cat give you? Is the animal world your main source of inspiration?
What a wonderful question. I’m just answering it with Claudio next to me. I’m obsessed with cats, they have something magical and mysterious that attracts me more than I can say. I had never been so in love with a cat as I am with Claudio, I feel an incredible connection and every time he appears through the door it gives me the kind of joy I would get if I had won the lottery. Claudio is not ours, actually he appeared one day suddenly and he lives between the house of the neighbor and ours. But he sleeps with us every day in bed and he’s so loving that I can't help but melt. Touching him it’s like my own personal moment of meditation.
You often refer to color as your therapy. Do you have a favorite shade for its effects on your energy? Which ones calm you? Which ones excite you?
My favorite color is pink, I find the best color of the whole palette and it is the one that attracts me the most. It is fun, playful, sexy and roguish. In fact, the furniture of Diabla that are in my garden are almost all pink and from having a beautiful garden now I have gone on to have a dream garden. All the people or friends who pass through here freak out and ask me. I need to live surrounded by cheerful colors. Yellow, pink, red, orange, Klein blue, etc. The colors earth, or things like that do not move anything in me. The dull or dark colors, or even when there’s only white in a house, I die of sadness. The color affects the mood so much that that’s why I try to use super bright colors when painting because if I wake up sad someday, I look at them and unconsciously I become happy again.
Your passion is painting, but many times you are also the protagonist of your creations and artistic projects. In what role do you have the most fun?
Yes, I like both. I like being in front and behind it and I think the two can coexist perfectly.
In Ibiza was born the idea of GANDIABLASCO, the brand that was the bud of the Gandia Blasco Group -to which DIABLA belongs-, and the first outdoor collections inspired by the Mediterranean lifestyle and Ibizan vernacular architecture. It seems that the island has also caught you. Why did you decide to move to Ibiza? What does this place mean to you at this point in your life? How’s your house there?
One thing that is very clear in my life is that I need nature to feel healthy. Without nature I rot inside, it is my fuel to feel healthy. In Ibiza I have friends that I love and in the end it is a magical place that is very close to Madrid and Barcelona, but at the same time it is incredibly international. Here sometimes you speak even more English than Spanish and there are very peculiar and colorful people. Ibiza is a dream and I can’t believe it took me so long to come and live here. I am so happy that I could cry.
How do you like to enjoy the outdoors?
More than anything. And especially when the sun comes up. But I also like being inside a house so I can paint because it’s so hot outside. I should build some porches for shade so I can make my creations outdoors.
How is your ideal terrace or patio?
My ideal terrace would be a place full of flowers like a Disney story. With flowers that were beautiful and radiant also in winter and with roofs covered by vines. I love it when nature gets wild and it’s not perfect and neat.
What did you think when you first heard about non-expendable tokens? Why did you decide to enter the NFT world? Do you have further plans in the crypto universe?
The first time it seemed kind of pointless. Then I saw that everyone was super interested and I thought “Well alright, we don’t want to be left behind”. When Playboy told us that doing NFTs were part of the action, I said “Great!”
I want to do more, but sometimes I don’t have the time. I like to do so many different things and sometimes I also like to do absolutely nothing and enjoy the present moment that comes at the end of the day and I say 'Shit. I haven’t done much today.” But absolutely yes, as soon as I can, I have to recreate NFTs because painting with an iPad is a blast.

A decade and a style

The ’70s and the psychedelia.

A season and a landscape or place

The Caribbean but not during the rainy season.

A color and a texture

Pink in soft hair.

A piece of furniture and a moment of the day

The outdoor sofas of Diabla that I have in the garden, culprits of my lack of productivity because they catch you as if they were a cloud of taste and comfort and give you so much comfort that it is impossible to get up.

An artwork and an artist

Now I love Amanda Wall, I love a painting of her with blue cherries.

A song and a memory

The pink life by Edith Piaf was the song I heard as a child in one of those music boxes that children have. For me it was a metaphor for the life I had and have since.

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