Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith is an odd bird to say the least. When finding inspiration for her work, she relies on moments of inspiration and follows that intuition to it's end. She works in both two-dimensional work and in three-dimensional sculpture. Her work often carries primal qualities to it., often depicting woman being close to nature or a part of nature as scene in the doe birthing a woman. This connection to nature may represent an aspect of her perceived identity. Is Kiki Smith this human deer child, the woman stepping out of her wolf shell? 

Her work often carries with it a sense of poetry or even magic in its enigmatic representation. Her drawing and sculptural work are styled, either in the rendering of the figures or in their relative sizes. Kiki Smith is creating what is being fed to her through her muse. What she creates is filtered through whatever medium she chooses to use but the haunting almost comically dark works of art stir up memories of nightmares you wish you were odd enough to have.