About the Founder

Thank you for taking a moment to learn a little about me and the soul behind this work.

My name is Tiffany Arriagada, though today I also go by Epifania. That name wasn't born from a desire to become someone else. It came from a remembrance of who I had always been.

A few years ago, after a near-death experience in 2020, something woke up inside of me.

I would love to tell you exactly what it was, but the truth is, I still don't fully have the words. I would say it was my soul, but it felt deeper than that. It was as if something within me remembered itself. Almost overnight, I began questioning everything I thought I knew about myself, my life, and the world around me. Things I had accepted as truth no longer felt true. The identities I had carried for years began to fall away, and in their place came questions, curiosity, creativity, and an overwhelming desire to understand who I really was.

That awakening changed the course of my life.

At the time, I was carrying years of stress, responsibility, trauma, grief, and survival. I had spent much of my adult life serving others—first as a soldier, then as an Army officer, a mother, a wife, and a caretaker. Somewhere along the way, I had lost touch with the creative, curious child I once was.

As a single parent in the military, I found myself facing the same impossible choice month after month: continue a career that often required me to be away from my children, or step away and become fully present in their lives. The stress wasn't simply the military itself. It was having to live with that choice over and over again. Eventually, I retired my commission and chose my children. What I didn't realize then was that leaving the Army wasn't the end of a chapter. It was the beginning of one.

Creativity became the thing that brought me back to myself.

Through photography, writing, art, travel, spirituality, and the kindness of countless women, artists, mentors, and friends, I slowly began reconnecting with parts of myself that had been buried beneath duty and survival. Art became more than something I made. It became a bridge between who I had been and who I was becoming. It became a way home.

Around that same time, the name Epifania came to me. Tiffany is derived from Theophania, meaning "manifestation of God." Epifania is its Spanish sister. The name felt familiar, as though it had always belonged to me and was simply waiting for me to hear it.

Then another name arrived.

Tallulah.

I was in the middle of rebuilding my life and reimagining my creative work when I felt the presence of my great-grandmother. I didn't recognize her at first, but I felt her. I heard the word Tallulah echo through me. Later, I discovered that my great-grandmother's name was Lula.

Maybe she was saying The Lula. Maybe she was reminding me of where I came from. Maybe she simply wanted to leave her fingerprints on what I was building.

Either way, she got her way.

Tallulah means flowing water or leaping water, and it became the perfect symbol for a life that had finally begun to move again.

Today, I am a wife, a mother, a writer, a photographer, a traveler, a veteran, and an eternal student of creativity, spirituality, and storytelling. My family has been my anchor throughout every season of my life, reminding me what truly matters and giving me the courage to continue evolving.

What started as a photography business eventually became something much larger.

TallulahMade is a creative studio born from the belief that art has the power to reconnect us with ourselves.

It is the umbrella that brings together my work as a writer, photographer, publisher, artist, and creator of immersive experiences. Under Tallulah Made lives TallulahMade Portraits, my fine art photography practice, and Bruja Magazine, an independent publication dedicated to art, folklore, spirituality, culture, and storytelling. It is also home to workshops, open studio sessions, gatherings, creative experiences, and future projects that continue to emerge from this journey.

I created this studio because I no longer wanted to separate the different parts of myself.

For years, I felt like I had to choose between artist and professional. Between spirituality and practicality. Between structure and imagination. Between who I was expected to be and who I knew I was becoming.

TallulahMade allows all of those parts to sit at the same table.

At its heart, this studio is about wonder.

It is about creating spaces where people can reconnect with creativity, imagination, beauty, and meaning. Whether that happens through a photograph, a magazine article, a workshop, a journal page, a conversation, or a shared experience, the intention is always the same:

To create something meaningful.

Thank you for being here.

I am honored that our paths have crossed, and I hope something within this space reminds you that it is never too late to begin again, to create, to dream, or to remember who you truly are.