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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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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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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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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 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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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 really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.
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