My father taught us to trust our intuition, y’know... my mother would always say that, believe your intuition. You always get in trouble when you don’t pay attention to it. And I think that, not in other aspects of my personal life or daily life do I do that, but always in my art I do that.
And sometimes I don’t like where my art is going, but I always know that… y’know, I always go like, why do I have to be making these things? It’s embarrassing or something, but I always trust that, that that’s what’s appropriate for me to be doing.
I have no innate ability for doing things physically, so I have to really learn and try to do it. And to me that’s the pleasure in it.
Kiki Smith tells Stories