Miranda’s work is informed by her decades-long research into the history of art technologies. Her research focuses on materials with long cultural, political, and social histories, especially pre-industrial natural dyes and pigments. In her work she creates color from raw materials such as cochineal, malachite, clay, oak gall, and black walnuts. She works with these materials in textile works and in handmade paint using binders from gum arabic to distemper to egg tempera. She is interested in the conceptual potential of color, and how materials offer a language for content through their history, context, physical and aesthetic properties. Considerations of the environmental impact of materials offers an additional framework for a sustainable safe studio practice.