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Maia Anthea Marinelli

Art, Interactive Installations, Performance, Sculpture, Sensory Design, and Creative Technology for Multidisciplinary Experimentation.

Drowings & Watercolors !?!?

“Occupy North,” conceived during “The Arctic Circle” art residency in October 2015, is a bold artistic initiative responding to the political tensions surrounding Arctic territorial claims. In two transformative phases, the project challenges traditional notions of nationhood and territory.


The symbolic act of planting a flag physically stakes a claim in
the Arctic, challenging geopolitical norms. This performative gesture is complemented by a strategic legal pursuit through the United Nations and the Norwegian government, thrusting the project beyond art into international governance.


Documented through photography, video, and visual artifacts, the legacy of “Occupy North” “Occupy North” aims
to reshape narratives, question power structures, and prompt
conversations about the environmental impact of political decisions.

After years of self-inflicted torture with challenging and complex installation. After years making fun of my self saying “can i just do watercolors instead” , it happened. I made water colors !
Of course not the  the tiny pretty kind but a more something like  2 meter long with intimate subjects. 

The work came mostly our of frustration after putting a forced hold on WPG production due to plotter malfunction. Somewhere in between learning how to fix a plotter, a brake up it and the meticulous calculations on the Wind Playground structure my brain rebelled. Instead of tracing the WPG patterns my hand  began to draw.

I started by drawing hands. They touched, then I could see the rest of the body unfold in front om my eye in to passionate and nervous lines. The hands became bodies; intimate beautiful bodies. Then
i felt the energy which became colors so I kept drawing.

 I don’t  consider my self a painter and  I haven’t paint in year, yet these lines and these colors overtook my senses and I had to keep drawing.

I now have 5 of this drawings. In all honesty I look forward for my residency in Australia to further explore this line of work .
For now I like to consider this a sketching in process.

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