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they Rhythm - rabbit box prototype

drawing of rabbit sitting very still with a line of barbed wire wrapped around throat as a scarf

drawing of two rabbits ears intertwined holding a sign with three blanks, then five blanks

two rabbits holding no war poster

Upcoming Exhibitions and Events

22.11 – 30.11.2023, solo exhibition, Gallery Whitebox, Jakobstad, Finland
April 2024, solo exhibition, B-Galleria, Turku, Finland

Currently in the Studio

1. beast on wheels 2. started new sketchbook 3. fa

1. beast on wheels
2. started new sketchbook
3. favorite marmalade from mom (I always cut it into thin slices)

A beast on wheels from Silvertejp, a couple of ver

A beast on wheels from Silvertejp, a couple of vernissage pics and a post-workshop selfie in silver-sequined bow-tie.

Yesterday was a good day. I felt the kind of peace inside that I hadn't felt since the war started. Like I know what I'm doing and why. It was magical, I'm so grateful. I wanted to capture it in words, but I crashed to sleep.

Went for a long walk with the beast today, then listened to @i.k.l.m.n talking about their animation. Busy being stressed about homework and preparing my artist talk for tomorrow now.

Still catching my breath after the crazy marathon leading up to the exhibition. I will share proper pics in a few days.

24.11, 17:00, Whitebox, Campus Allegro 💛 Tusen

24.11, 17:00, Whitebox, Campus Allegro 💛

Tusen tack till @linbos_art för bilderna

Well, all the smaller beasts are cut out and ready

Well, all the smaller beasts are cut out and ready to be glued onto strings - which is the plan for the rest of the day.

I still have stupid covid and still feel like shit and struggle with anything that involves being upright. And I still don't know whether I'll be able to go build my exhibition on Monday without being a public health safety hazard. Vanya promised to grab some tests on his way home.

Second time this happens - for some reason covid seems to have a strong effect on my mental health alongside the flu-like stuff. I'm a crying mess, and I recognize acutely depressive thought patterns. It's of course probably in part the general state of burnout and emotional overload and mental and emotional exhaustion of the past year and a half. And the stress of something I've worked really hard for being at risk of falling apart l. But it's also all of my emotional regulation strategies and efforts suddenly just not working at all, and every tiniest little thing causing a massive crying fit.

I do like the way the beasts turned out. It's been hours and hours of printing and cutting. They seem right.

The Beasts on Wheels series will be part of my Sil

The Beasts on Wheels series will be part of my Silvetejp exhibition opening on November 22nd. If this stupid, stupid sudden covid thing allows me to open anything on the 22nd. I'm doing my best, and I've put months of work into this exhibition happening. But a person with a 38+ fever is predictably significantly less efficient than one without. And covid always seems to do a number on me making it really hard to move and tearing down all my emotional shields. There's to hoping.

I finished this particular rabbit drawing a few days ago, and it's special to me in that I hadn't drawn rabbits since - well, since the anti-war sticker series I did in St. Petersburg back in February '22 (technically, more like February through August, right until I left). Which feels like a time that was close to a triple eternity ago, if that kind of timeframe is even a thing.

I was planning to formally announce my exhibition today. Bu all I can do is share a hope of an exhibition. I'm good at pushing myself (and outright ignoring the fact that I have physical limitations if we're being honest). But I'm sitting barely managing to sit up here with this stupid fever, and everything is at least 3x slower than it should be. And I know that if I push any harder I'll break. So for now - no announcement, just a hope of an exhibition. And I'm doing all that I can to make it happen. And I'm really, terribly sad and tired. And this exhibition means so much to me. I just really, really deeply hope I can make it happen. And I miss home terribly. Whatever home really means now.

I know my exhibition won't change much. It won't set Sasha Skochilenko free. Or Yuri Dmitriev. Or any of the others. Or fix any of the other unjust and terrible things happening. But I still want it to happen. Not going silent in the face of all this is hard. And finding the things to say. It's scary and painful and a struggle all the way through.

There's no pretty conclusive paragraph to this, neatly wrapping things up. Things are a mess, a very, very un-wrapped up mess.

Dagens papper, pepparkakor och glögg kväll är i

Dagens papper, pepparkakor och glögg kväll är inställd pga att jag är hemma med korona och 38+ feber 💔

Nytt datum kommer senare.

Kram,
En jätteledsen Maria.

Propeller beast + some process pics from putting t

Propeller beast + some process pics from putting things together for Silvertejp - my upcoming exhibition in @whiteboxallegro opening on November 22nd. I've been finishing up many of the drawings that I had jotted down as ideas in my sketchbook in the past months - now inking and laying down all the patterns. And yesterday was all about painting an armchair that I found at Åldringsvänner so that it's black and fits with the rest of the exhibition (I might still add white pattern detail). The armchair will be for diving into the VR part of the exhibition in a way that's safe and less likely to induce dizziness.

So, so many thanks to @svenskosterbottniskasamfundet for supporting my work 💛

The couple idyllic pics in the middle are me catching a few moments of quiet before diving back into work. It was sunny today.

Välkommen på Drop-in Julverkstad kl. 18-20 den 1

Välkommen på Drop-in Julverkstad kl. 18-20 den 15 november 2023

Vi bjuder på glögg och pepparkakor och Maria Fox Larsson lär dig vika egna julgranskulor.
Vi använder papper och du får rita ditt eget mönster eller färglägga.
Passar alla åldrar.

Address: Tingshusgatan 4, Jakobstad
@blandtyperochtryck @foxlarssonart

Double propeller beast. Spent a lot of last year

Double propeller beast.

Spent a lot of last year figuring out a bunch of new tech for work (the laminator still eludes me, but we seem to be friends with the great big printer). Monday and Tuesday have mostly been about finding, choosing and ordering paper (and dealing with the bureaucratic hurdles and uncertainties that come along with that) - huge rolls of paper for the school, and (separately) relatively printer-friendly cardstock for me.

The past two evenings have been about befriending a borrowed Quest 2 headset for my upcoming exhibition. It took me longer than expected, but I now have my account set up and Spatial installed, so hopefully I can test the black-and-white box version of the screaming mermaid tomorrow.

After a morning of paper struggles i came to my desk in my school studio and found pickles and blueberries from @katia_creativity - which was magical.

The pics are from Sunday. It's getting frostier and frostier here. Three weeks to go till my solo show. Doing my best to stay sane and functional - and to get shit done.

Managed to get some drawing done today and yesterd

Managed to get some drawing done today and yesterday.

The past couple of months have been intense - with the big VR project @ernest_sairon and I did for @quantum__critic, the pop-up exhibition @ivankostyurin and I put together at @jakarte.art for @konstrundan, a team residency application we put together with @ivankostyurin, @ernest_sairon and N. A., full time studies, several English and Swedish students, and a new art/tech job at school that I've started a week ago. So getting to just draw for the sale of drawing feels like a luxury.

Taking a few breaths today - and then time to focus full force on my upcoming solo exhibition in Jakobstad. I am still in the space of knowing what I am doing and why, but being unable to quite put it into words and concrete form, though I'm getting there. The rest of today though is for being home and doing or not doing whatever I want, art related or otherwise.

I'm surrounded by wonderful people, and I feel really grateful.

#sketchbook #penandink

Propeller beast plus a bit of Octoberness. Too tir

Propeller beast plus a bit of Octoberness. Too tired for text, but let there be pics at least, I guess.

#propellerbeasts #drawing

Designed a pull tab costume card for a class we ha

Designed a pull tab costume card for a class we had with @balatako kids 🙃

It was a fun challenge - to come up with a mechanic that would allow for a costume to magically appear "out of nowhere" - and that would be possible to get done in a bit over two hours.

It's not the most stable mechanism - if I were using it in a book, I would probably add some form of guide to the tab for durability - but it works in a quick card format, and playing around with costumes was fun.

#paperengineering #paperart #papercraft #pulltab #pulltabcard #costumecard

Propeller beast trying to do the best he can with

Propeller beast trying to do the best he can with what he has. And some Jakobstad magic.

#propellerbeasts #jakobstad

Today 16:00 (Finnish time) is the opening of our v

Today 16:00 (Finnish time) is the opening of our virtual Quantum Critic exhibition. You can walk into a room levitating in thin air, teleport straight into hell - and ride the Screaming Mermaid @ernest_sairon and I made.

The exhibition takes place on the @spatial_io platform, and you can join from your phone or browser - or with a VR headset if you happen to have one.

The exhibition will be available here: https://www.spatial.io/s/Quantum-Critic-2023-65166888d3282112c124f78d

(I will also post an activee link in my stories and bio)

This has been an incredible project to work on, and I am really grateful. Huge thanks to all of you who shared your screams with the Mermaid, to @ernest_sairon for creating the 3d version of the mermaid, to @a_acoop for building the bizzare and mesmerizing exhibition space, and to @myymala2 and the @quantum__critic team for making it all happen.

Come join us at the opening - and you can't make it to the opening, come see the show later by following the same link. Drop me a line if you want my company - I can help you navigate the space and tell about some of the artworks. 🙃💛

#vr #virtualreality #virtualexhibition #vrart #quantumcritic #myymälä2 #screamingmermaid

Propeller goose (from the propeller beasts series)

Propeller goose (from the propeller beasts series). And some October pics. I'm still sick, mostly lying flat and struggling to function. But November is beautiful.

#propellerbeasts #drawing #blackandwhite

I don't think I can write anything about another w

I don't think I can write anything about another war breaking out. It hurts like crazy.

Spent the weekend working on my final project for drawing class. Well, spent Saturday on that. Today I'm surrounded by a crowd of dementia and barely able to function. Dragged myself out for a walk with the dogster. That kind of stuff is supposed to make one feel better and more energized. Ended up laying flat for two hours afterwards.

Really tired. Hope i can pull of a day off next weekend. And hope I'm at least able to move tomorrow.

I do like the way the drawings turned out. Just really tired. And the world feels really, really wrong.

New paper card with secret flip tab mechanics comi

New paper card with secret flip tab mechanics coming soon 🙃

This past week has been overwhelming to the very brim, with an exhibition opening, a trip to Turku and Helsinki, school, a colleague's exhibition opening at our university gallery (I'm part of the gallery team), and planning and carrying out a paper mechanics class for a group of kids (that involved designing the card mechanics appropriate to the theme and designing templates so that the cards could be made in a reasonable amount of time). And teaching a few English and Swedish lessons on top of that. I was so tired yesterday that I forgot to bake the celebratory frozen cinnamon buns that I brought home.

A couple more minor miracles scheduled for today,and a full day of drawing scheduled for Saturday or Sunday. But at least one day of the weekend I think I am leaving completely blank for recovery.

Off to perform minor miracles now.

#selfportrait #illustration #penandinkdrawing

Train doodles from my Friday train ride to Helsink

Train doodles from my Friday train ride to Helsinki - I miraculously made it to the Quantum Critic opening. It's been a mermaid-heavy month.

#sketchbook #mermaidart #makemoreweird

Cautiously optimistic - the "maybe it will fly 🤔" kind

On my way to Helsinki, with a chance of seeing my mermaid in actual virtual reality - and of meeting some humans I love.

Trying to dry my hoodie in the train window because it got rained upon on Tue balcony at night, and this is currently my favorite hoodie and the thing I wear to keep the universe more or less stable.

Baked cinnamon buns yesterday (the lazy frozen kind, not up for the real thing atm). Drinking tea and staring out the train window. Trying to catch my breath and land after the mermaid marathon. Thinking about all the upcoming stuff, it's really intense till the end of November.

Hoping to maybe get some sleep on Saturday. And drawing. Mostly mermaids.

Mermaid teaser aka my favorite blooper from when I

Mermaid teaser aka my favorite blooper from when I got the object physics wrong and the Mermaid went, well, straight to hell. I am rereading UNSONG at the moment, so all I can say here is, it's not a coincidence. Because nothing is ever a coincidence 🙃💛

Mermaid 3d model by @ernest_sairon 💛

#unity3d #spatial #virtualreality

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