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Marx was born in Queensland Australia and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco However when she arrived she found herself in the midst of fascinating nonobjective painting and filmmaking activity She was greatly influenced by the work of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson and changed her own style to nonobjective receiving graphic inspiration from Jungian brain drawings symbols in the occult sciences and the design used by Eastern cultures all of which being important elements in the San Francisco school mystical school of nonobjective art Robert Pike A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement