Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Mattingly

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Mary Mattingly is an American visual artist living and working in New York City. She was born in Rockville, Connecticut in 1978. She has studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 2002. She is the recipient of a Yale University School of Art Fellowship, and was a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center from 2011-2012.

American - Artist | Born: September 8, 1979

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I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and I would have this relationship with that person, and if that person was interested in the object, they would have to email me and I would send that object digitally to them. So, I wanted the relationship with that person, however brief, and I wanted to spread the digital record of the things I have.

Mary Mattingly

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

Mary Mattingly

We're at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach.

Mary Mattingly

Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fully support oneself with the help of others within smaller, sustainable communities. Being interdependent instead of relying mostly on machines for the things we need.

Mary Mattingly

You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.

Mary Mattingly

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

Mary Mattingly

If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects special again. I guess I'm not really advocating for no objects in the world, but rather the idea of creating within our present means.

Mary Mattingly

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Mary Mattingly

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Mattingly

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