Masha Falkov doesn't ever remember not drawing, and some of her earliest memories involve trying to use a drawing program on a Commodore 128. At 13, a person in the local library saw her checking out a book on 3D animation. He offered to send her a copy of the trueSpace2 software- and the notion of Stranger Danger went right out the window. Luckily a stack of floppies and a subscription to a graphics magazine were all that arrived at her house later that month!
For some years she thought that she would become a biologist, and even filmed a short nature documentary about the wilderness of Southwest Florida for an independent study project at New College. But art was always central, and like the dry saw palmettos, any other discipline or interest was always just more kindling for the flame.
Growing up in New York City, it was difficult to get out into nature. But there was a beauty to the city too. The diverse people, the layers of (often decaying) infrastructure, and the constant background roar of it all. It felt like its own form of life. When she and her husband moved to the Pacific Northwest, they were exposed to a new kind of city. Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC seemed to exist alongside nature, as much as New York seemed to exist apart from it. It was a fusion of nature and technology, a theme that would come up frequently in Masha's art.
Now she and her husband live in a tiny rural town in North Central Washington. She runs a small art studio where she makes digital paintings and 3D designs, blows glass, and is currently working on an indie video game, Unstable Scientific.
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