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Through material experimentation and collecting my work considers the fragility of systems that can feel inevitable. I use low tech technologies, like paper mache, knitting, and stop motion intertwined with 3D modeling and animation to make installations, videos and sculptural scenarios.
Homeschooled in rural Tennessee, my first materials were scavenged debris from the woods behind my childhood home. Armed with the aesthetics of 90s science fiction at the forefront of my mind, I gathered sticks, rocks and snake skins to poorly construct small haphazard shelters. Understanding the context of my surroundings through collecting remains crucial to my artistic research.
I collect Iconic grocery packaging (bread tags, berry baskets and egg cartons), construction site detritus, seed pods and geological bits which all come to me through systems of production and distribution. I pick apart these item’s historical, material and emotional relations to investigate how these seemingly banal products of my material culture can be used to exfoliate the social “naturalness' ' they are seeped in.
Found objects become part of Imagined ecosystems with undisclosed logics. These modular elements synthesize and shift into large scale installations with the potential to change with each iteration of their arrangement.
Marilla Cubberley received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and her BA from Hampshire College. She currently lives and works in New York City.