Marika Thunder Nuss

interview by CAROLINE GAIMARI 

 

CAROLINE GAIMARI — How old are you now?
MARIKA THUNDER NUSS – I’m 10.

CAROLINE GAIMARI — Is everything ready for your upcoming show at Half Gallery?
MARIKA THUNDER NUSS — No, I still have three more pieces to do. I’m working on one of them now. I’m basically copying one of the pictures from this Japanese anime book that I’m reading, except that I’m not so good at copying. I just do it out of my head.

CAROLINE GAIMARI — Where do you get your ideas from? 
MARIKA THUNDER NUSS — Oh, from lots of things. I just really like anime. But all the stencil stuff started when I began using knives as stencils. My mom got me some silly string and I used it with some stencils. Then it got hard after a couple…