The mirmayd moth
I’ve had a hard time settling on my logo,
but here it is and the story behind it:
MIRMAYD is simply my name:
MIRanda MAYbelle David.
The meaning behind the moth in my logo runs a bit deeper. Photography has always been a way for me to hold onto people, to moments, and to feelings that have felt too sweet to let pass by. My dad saw that creative passion in me at a young age before I fully knew what I wanted to do with it. I always had a camera in my hand growing up, but in high school I discovered my love for the ability I had to intentionally catch emotion within an image.
I had started making plans to go to school for photography in San Francisco, but my dad passed just months shy of me graduating high school, and everything came screeching to a halt. Grief hit hard, and I didn’t know how to start a new chapter in life when one had so suddenly closed and left so much uncertainty in its wake.
Life kept moving. I became a mom to two beautiful little lovebugs. I slowly tucked my dream away…I never forgot about it, it just got buried under everything else.
On my 28th birthday, my fiancé surprised me with the camera I had always dreamed of. That night, holding my gift in my hands, I felt my old dream of making photography my job resurfacing. It felt like coming home to a younger version of myself who had deserved to follow her dream years ago.
The next morning, after I had officially decided it was time to open my photography business, I took my coffee out to my front porch, and a massive mossy green, brown, and black patterned moth was resting on the table. I almost mistook her for a small bird.
It was a seemingly small moment, but I just remember it feeling really important. Which is exactly what my photography is all about... the big significance in the small moments.
Looking back now, it felt like a full-circle moment. My fiancé had helped me find my dream again, and although he never had the chance to meet my Dad - the moth felt like a symbolic tie between them and the belief they shared in me and my dream.
When I decided to make the jump into rebranding, I was going through my head about what my logo would look like, and how I wanted something that really meant something to me—and that I would be proud of.
I thought of the moth. I looked it up because I remembered that moment feeling so symbolic—and I immediately knew I wanted her to be part of my photography journey.
A Pandora Sphinx Moth symbolizes embracing the unknown with curiosity rather than fear.
Like the universe saying to me, “It’s time, babe. Go for it… it will be okay.”
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If you connect with my work and the energy behind it, reach out to me.
I’d love to tell your story.
