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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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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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We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's 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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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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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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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I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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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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When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!
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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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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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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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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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