Beauty and a Beat

Deep in a mountainous valley a single song plays over and over as a spellbound creative moves to its hypnotic beat.


A broken record would be a welcome tool for digital artist, Anna Majboroda, who chooses one song to inspire her throughout each piece of art she creates. While listening to the same tune for 20 to 30 hours would drive many to insanity, the Masterton based artist falls into a sea of rhythm that helps her through her creative journey.
“As soon as I hear a song I can tell whether there is a picture in it; whether it's the tool I need to work with,” Anna explains. “I can't even express how much I love music. It has a very deep effect on me like vibration as medicine. Without the music there would be no pictures. The music can be old or new, it just has to be the right vehicle. It's the song that builds the momentum. It puts me back on the road to where I've been… where I retrieve my story from.”
As a teenager in the 80s in the somewhat uneventful town of Masterton, Anna left school when she was 15, went flatting (much to her mother’s horror) and got her first boyfriend.
“I hung out in a group of 80s punks and anarchists and I can honestly say it was the most hopeful time of my life. We were all 10 feet tall and bulletproof with dreams of being artists, writers, you name it. It was one of the best times of my life.”
After leaving school, the anarchist (or so she was called in her day) travelled throughout the United Kingdom and Europe only to return to Masterton and marry at age 19.