Marla Parker, Elyza Brillantes, and Maria Duke are all Junior Fiber majors at the Maryland Institute College of Art. They delight in the fabulous and exciting.

Salon Matka
For the 2009 Transmodern Festival, Marla Parker, Elyza Brillantes, and Maria Duke propose opening a pseudo-salon called Salon Matka. The salon will be completely open to the air and feature a couch or some comfortable armchairs, table lamps, an area run, and some floor lamps. The girls will assume the characters of three biological Russian sisters even though none of them are either remotely Russian or remotely related. Each sister will have an appointed task to make visitors feel simultaneously welcome and slightly uncomfortable. By inviting passersby into their salon, the girls hope to place influence on the roles of femininity and maternity in the world today.