Kiki walker, is a artist that believes art is a what's going on inside you and the artist is the one who makes those feelings, emotions, thoughts come to life. Its a way to express what your feeling in a way others can see rather than trying to put to words. Walker had a tough time when she was a child to read so the best way for her to understand what things were saying was by looking at things so it can give her the sense of what's going on around her. She also creates drawings of thing but then later makes them into a sculpture she believes in different way to make the image come alive, in her own words she states " they get to live again, they get to have a life outside just one version". She mentions that there is a type of relationship with the group with her sculptures, meaning that it's just more emotions when its laying down or more closer to the ground rather it standing up.
Kiki walker was in an environment where there was a lot of death around her which influenced most of her work and style. There was a period where she has done some work on dead bird and some of her work was for the death of her sister and cat. There's some dolls that she makes that to her it , she strongly believe that it doesn't need to be precise nor perfect , she even admits to walking around with them knocking them over so that a few piece will break off. She explains that she does that because then it gives the piece a personal meaning it could b e for her own or it can have a personal meaning for someone else.
Kiki's work is a combination of others working with her its not just her doing everything, she's amazing at what she does but also admires others who have great talent that she isn't able to part into her own. For example she loves fabric and adores the way the fabric workshop & museum does it and how they are able to take one's work and transfer it to the fabric piece, she works with them in order to get her desired look. It isn't just one form of art kiki forces on she does multiplies such as blankets, jewelry, drawings and sculptures and many admire that she works 24/7 there isn't a certain place where it's like i start and finish here and when i go home ill think of more ideas, because she works anywhere and everywhere her mind is art.
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