Artists Statement
Once upon a winter in 2002, Molly & Marina met on
Craigs List. Molly was a painter, and Marina was an
animator. Molly worked with Marina on sewing O-Matic
characters onto shirts and bags. Molly turned one of
her own drawings of girls into a t-shirt and those
proliferated, and soon thereafter, Mollywood was born.
In 2003, Marina was working on making pixels into
every-day objects like dishes and sponges, that could
then be used as large mosaic images. But the colors
weren't candy enough, so she and Molly started casting
the pixel units out of resin. That winter, they
realized the strange pixelesque candy-colored resin
would look great as jewelry, and thus, a new line was
born.
Mollywood was growing, and soon trees sprouted to
keep the girls and the deer company, as well as tiny
perfect worlds encased in resin.
Mollywood and O-Matic have run in tandem paths of
discovery. Both negotiate between the extremely
handmade, and the computer rendered. Both are kind of
secret universes with ecosystems and logics of their
own.
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