these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.
thank you for meeting me here in such tall grass.
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I can understand why you love her, Angela. I particularly Kik Smith's thoughts as I have transcribed them here:
'Either you're stopped by what hampers you, or you're not...you can have a lot of talent, but not care about it...being an artist is a sort of weird combination of needing to do something...'
It seems to me a number of us have been talking about these things in the blogosphere of late.
Kiki Smith puts it beautifully as she walks us through her own private domestic space, such that even this video itself becomes a piece of art.
Thanks for posting this.
elisabeth, me too! that last bit of the interview was the whole reason for posting it. it just really seemed to fit the day, fit life. she's such a powerhouse and a completely stunning human being.
This was very emotional for me.
heather- yes.
i love how gentle and softly funny she is. entirely compassionate, so inclusive in her beliefs and outlook. just love. pure love. and for as cliched as it may sound, i'll say it anyway- the truth is a powerful thing. and the way the interveiw ends is so full of truth it does make the eyes well up and sends a huge surge of emotion through the heart. the surge of screaming YES!
Thank you this is wonderful what she said about artists spending their lives in a free fall. It does feel that way. Wow.
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yay! i'm so glad you like it! it definitely does feel that way a lot of the time... it's good to know that it's okay. i've been so comforted by her work. it's such a gift to be comforted by her words and views as well.
This is a beautiful bit of KiKi Smith, whose work I've long long admired, have written a poem even. I love her markings, her nail polish, all silvery and chipped, like her amazing hair, which reminds me of her bird nest work. She looks like her work. Thank you for posting. This helps.
hi pam,
it totally helps. it helps me endlessly. i've been watching everyday- looking at her tattoos and chipped nail polish and hair... i have wild curls like that and i hope my hair goes silver white like hers one day. and i want to look like my work one day too. she is a big inspiration and influence on ME, not just my work. i'm so glad you watched it.
Yes...to look like our work. Esp. as a visual artist that seems possible. Like Agnes Martin-plainsong work, beautiful, spacious zones -- she looks that way.
My hair is straight-maybe I'm more like Agnes than Kiki, but many days Kiki's work feels right...she opens and goes in. Or something. Im getting inarticulate.
Anyway, thanks for posting. It helps.
PS -- Do you know Ann Hamilton's work? I like her too.
i DO know her work! i love it too! especially those redaction poems (that's how i think of them anyway) that she made with a soldering iron and also with stones. and especially the piles of clothes. all that blue. the mountain of denim. highly conceptual but HAUNTED. it's a rarity and a gorgeous one. some sort of mourning ritual or release... her work is a fuel somehow. i'm not sure what i'm saying... just that i love her work too and feel grateful it's in the world. :)
Yes...conceptual and cerebral but earthy. I'll have to send you some poems I wrote on pieces by Hamilton and Smith. I get a lot from visual art-probably because I'm all thumbs but yearn for the physicality of brush and paint and paper and pencil and thread and charcoal.
pam, please do! i'd love to read them! yay!!!!!!
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