I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.
Kiki SmithOne's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.
Kiki SmithI think that objects have memories. Iโm always thinking that Iโll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
Kiki SmithI 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.
Kiki Smith