Maya Interview
Written by Dowden
Tell us a little bit about your work.My work is an expression of fear and repressions a mixed media colourful sometimes joyful but as well painful and frightening. A self portrait.
What materials do you normally work in?
I do not have any preferences in materials I love to play around with all things: I would say at the moment mono prints is what I have been happy with.
Describe your process of creating a new piece.
I create every new piece in function of my state. In love, broken, destroyed, in harmony, bruised: generally I can never be very calm so it is a bit all the states that come out there.
Generally I need real paper and a pen and I write backwards so that if there is anyone around me they think I'm mad. I would write random words, feelings that appeal to me. I give myself a brief then I go from there. I generally need to do series of pieces of art. From there on the words become colours and creation.
Influences?
The women artist Frida Khalo, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle and the close ones Zoe Redman, Sabine Delrieu, Annabel Mednick and many others.
What are you really excited about right now?
I am exited about the state of the old Ferguson TV that I have broken and that is under the rain.
When are you the most productive?
At night, in the day time when there is lots of noises and music when I am hurt, in love.
What were you like in college?
I have no idea maybe out of context?
Upcoming projects and/ or upcoming shows, etc...?
A two day art performance with Zoe Redman, Mother and Daughter in Paris.
In the summer in the south of France some work shops. Maybe a week exposition in October next year.
Best thing that happened to you this week?
Wrote a letter.
Any words of wisdom?
Live it, take it everything is impermanence and suffering.