Kiki Smith has a mindset like my own. She does not want to have to explain what or why she makes work. She does most if not all of her thinking by doing, and creating. She thinks that ideas have limits and that you can let go of them any time you want. She tells us to trust our artwork and believe in it, and then it will guide us. She creates work that will hopefully give young women the sense of entitlement that many famous older women have had the opportunity to feel. She believes that materials have histories, and that what materials you use should contribute to what you are making, and that the material and the work of art will both be a whole together. She is interested in decorative art and historic art. She says that her imagination is sparked by mythology stories, so she creates images and figures from these stories.
Nancy Spero works differently. She has images in her head that she will figure out first, then create later. She creates work based off the subject of women's positions in the world politically. Her art reflects the ideas she has because there are only images of women in her work, and they are usually prisoners treated horribly and being raped. She symbolizes war and women. She uses helicopter symbols a lot of the time to symbolize the Viet Nam war. She uses the same images often, using cross-historical figures. She was inspired to do all this when she joined several anti-war groups. This was her introduction to New York, and her art has been political ever since.
For these two artists, they take you into another world with their work. They take you physically into their imaginations. They make us feel like we can either live here or there. In other words, they are showing us constructing images in another way of existing.
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