Hey all!  I’m Maya aka luckypapaya.  I’m an artist who likes to make weird stuff. My thesis is about industrialized processed foods.  I have an outdated thesis blog here http://luckypapayasthesis.tumblr.com/ .  I’m working on a new blog but not there yet.

About Me:  I was born and raised in the foothills of Appalachia, in less elegant terms I was born a hillbilly.  My hippie parents had an organic garden for our vegetables and raised me a vegetarian.  I climbed a lot of trees, played in creeks, picked wildberries and shot cans with a bb gun until the age of 12 when my family moved to suburban northern Ohio.  I went to high school surrounded by corn fields and shopped with the Amish at Wal-Mart.  From high school graduation until college was a series of adventures in various areas of the country, I lived off the grid in an earth ship in New Mexico, and in redwood trees in Northern California.  I finally settled in Boulder, Colorado where I earned my BFA in photography and BA in Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder.  From Boulder I moved here to work and attend grad school.  That pretty much brings us up to the present and now you know my life story.  Looking forward to the semester, to thesis and to everything in between!!