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Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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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.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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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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Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.
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My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
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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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