I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
Kiki SmithAs an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.
Kiki SmithMy 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.
Kiki SmithYou start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.
Kiki Smith