Monday, November 5, 2012

kiki smith, tattoos, and someone named tift


"somehow the combination of the beauty marks and the ink on her body, I thought I could tattoo her beauty marks onto me.  And then I was at another artist’s house and they had a little bit of paint on their fingers.  And I thought, I could take a mark from somebody else’s body and put it on my body and then I would remember. That way you would have this weird little reminder to them..." 

(go here to hear the beautiful little snippet of a conversation)
click 'listen' in red above photo on website