Maya Ben David (MBD) is a Toronto-based Jewish-Iranian artist. Working in video, installation and performance, she creates worlds and characters that aid her ongoing exploration of anthropomorphism, cosplay and performative personas.

Our conversation was recorded in Hamilton within Treaty 3 territory on the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations under the Dish With One Spoon wampum agreement.

This episode of Hopping the Fence contains discussions of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

Show Notes 

@thebropercent 

Maya’s YouTube 

Maya’s Patreon 

The Jiggle Physics Manifesto

Anime 

Fanfiction 

Bimbo

Himbo 

Thembo 

glowing cursed cleeve

Air Canada Girl 

r/FineArt

Weird Art Group 

That REALLY Weird Art 

Weird and Dark Art 

Dream Core ART Alliance

Fantasy and Fairy Art 

Jess Price Eisner

Claudia Slogar Rick 

Snake Girl's Hyperbolic Time Chamber (A Jewish tale on intergenerational trauma)

Iain Soder 

Popcorn Ceiling Maiden 

Serenading the popcorn ceiling in my apartment

Annie’s Song by John Denver 

Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat 

G-D Speaks to Snake Moses 

Samara Contemporary 

Mold Maid

Vore 

Kiby

Noah 

Jewish humour 

The Holocaust 

WWII Crank Siren 

Grotesque 

Jonathan Ben David

Ryan Trecartin

Chop Chop, Lollipop 

Scrump Runts: A Slice of Their Secret Life 

Tough Guy Mountain

Ceramic egg 

I made a centaur 

Centaur Costume at Gibralter Point 

Ginny D Centaur Book 

Etsy

MLM schemes 

Curator 

Artist Curator Met Gala Meme 

Podcast Reccomendation 

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

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Audio editing for Hopping the Fence by Emily Reimer. Original artwork by Alex Gregory, and original music by Jessica Price Eisner.

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