I look around me and
everything seems , what's the word I seek,
ephemeral?
beautiful?
spiritual?
I've been alone for a few days, not quite a week.
The empty spaces became filled with green
and my needle kept going in and out, in and out
I made things in the evenings that I had not even considered when I woke up
My fabrics piled up around me and the light poured into the house
it poured in
it revealed beauty I hadn't noticed
and also that unnamable something....
I've gone back and forth to my studio in town,
making making making
looking at the water and the sky
writing and unwriting journals
a kind of transformation is going on inside me
a shifting
When you make something you have proof that something has been accomplished, something is different. It's proof that there has been a change. You have made a physical change. You have made a thing. It's through the physical world that you can have a spiritual life. It is about transendence. Something has moved from one state to another. Art is proof. Art moves your insides into the physical world. It doesn't rob you of your insides, it;'s just a representation and it's always different. It's like a mystery and you're trying to rein it in or something.
Kiki Smith speaks this way
everything seems , what's the word I seek,
ephemeral?
beautiful?
spiritual?
I've been alone for a few days, not quite a week.
The empty spaces became filled with green
and my needle kept going in and out, in and out
I made things in the evenings that I had not even considered when I woke up
My fabrics piled up around me and the light poured into the house
it poured in
it revealed beauty I hadn't noticed
and also that unnamable something....
I've gone back and forth to my studio in town,
making making making
looking at the water and the sky
writing and unwriting journals
a kind of transformation is going on inside me
a shifting
When you make something you have proof that something has been accomplished, something is different. It's proof that there has been a change. You have made a physical change. You have made a thing. It's through the physical world that you can have a spiritual life. It is about transendence. Something has moved from one state to another. Art is proof. Art moves your insides into the physical world. It doesn't rob you of your insides, it;'s just a representation and it's always different. It's like a mystery and you're trying to rein it in or something.
Kiki Smith speaks this way