Miguel A Machuca

I’m an immigrant, I lost my dad before I moved to the US. I Lost my mom 2025. I fought cancer in 2015. I can’t stop being an Artist. 333

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What is your favorite type of art to create?

There is a favorite type of art I like to create and I call it “Dark Romanticism“. It’s the type of art that is nurtured by my life’s experience and journey that has led me to express the pain I have endured. My images might be dark but they will visually communicate pain and struggle and through those images of darkness they speak of truth, growth , faith and a will to explore the beauty of one’s challenges. That leap to be vulnerable and accepting of one self. A True meaning of human nature.

Where do you find inspiration?

I used to feel and understand that in depression was my inspiration. With that being said and true in my own belief I also understood that my deepest self found inspiration in life's hardest moments. Those moments where you know no one can understand what those dark life challenges will lead you to. I purposely travel deep in the rabbits hole and stay there to be able to absorbe what is meant for me to bring back up and create. The joy is finding the bravery to be humble to show your true self.

What would you do with $25,000?

25,000 dollars would bless me to help me with few things in my life. To be able to pay off the rest of my Mothers cemetery resting place. My siblings (older brother, older sister ) and I lost our mom in april 4th 2025 to cancer. She passed on my late fathers birthday. He passed circa November 1986 right before we moved to the United States. I would also use part of it to further my career as an Artist, but also to allow me to financially take my self out of a hard place and continue creating.

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