Marianna Maruyama is an artist and writer geo-located in The Hague. In recent years she has concentrated on termites and their effect on cultural heritage, as well as data privacy concerns, archives, embodied knowledge, and the possibilities opened up by loss. Maruyama primarily works with sculpture, performance, video, and text.
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about the story:
The character "Arla" is fictional, but shares some resemblance with the real-life Ilo, a close friend of the artist Arlene Tucker in Joutsa, Finland.