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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.
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 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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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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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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.
Kiki Smith
Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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