It takes a village to keep a truck running.

I create mobile devices in order to catalyze encounters.

The latest one is a 1974 Grumman: manual transmission and gas-powered.

It rides slowly, is real noisy, reeks of gasoline — but it draws people in.

It brings them together, to help with a mechanical problem or to revel at a block party.

I use it to reach out, to hold space, to spark connections.
I can't drive it to Sagamie—too great a risk of it breaking down along the way—

but it will accompany me in my notes and sketches.

Snippets of stories about breakdowns, of the bonds forged around them, 
that's what I want to put down on paper.

Roads travelled, dust, encounters.

A village full of gold nuggets.

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Maggy Flynn’s practice is interested in what art can bring to everyday life: gatherings, mutual aid, gentle acts of resistance.

She is completing a MFA—research and intervention, exploring how her mobile devices—including her 1974 Grumman truck—can become engines of social connection and collective micro-transformations.

Maggy Flynn's residency is part of a partnership with L'Imprimerie.