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It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
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I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
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It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
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Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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