Kitty Kilian, To hell with anything unrefined, 10 x 15 cm/ 4 x 6 in, mixed media Don Marquis was an American writer/columnist who in 1916 the introduced the poetic cockroach Archy in his column in The New York Sun. Archy types poems on Don Marquis’s typewriter, at night. He has a friend called [...]
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10 things I expected out of life when I was 10 but did not get
Kitty Kilian, ‘And you think YOUR family’s dysfunctional?’, mixed media, 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 When I was ten I expected lots of things to happen when I grew up – these are the things that didn’t: I would be smashingly beautiful I would be very, very sensible I would marry [...]
Women who blog and say fuck
Kitty Kilian, At times she felt like she was living someone else’s life, mixed media on paper 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 in Women who blog What is it with women who blog? So many women have blogs, yet so few of them WRITE. Most seem happy to post embroidery, freshly [...]
Do you want to be my rolemother? (It’s not about seduction any longer)
Kitty Kilian, It is not about seduction any longer, mixed media, 17 x 24 cm Last week I did something brave. Something daring. Some would probably say: and stupid. Well, sometimes you just have to take your chances in life, and act. So I did: I added my year of birth to my Linkedin [...]
She had decided ..
Kitty Kilian, mixed media, 10 x 15 cm I found her in a family portrait of long ago. Amidst her parents and sisters she draws all attention. Not because she is so pretty, but because she looks so disappointed. You can tell that what she has experienced of life so far does not make [...]
10 things my teenage sons say to me
Kitty Kilian, Mama niet zeiken / Mom, piss off. Stamps on label. Mom, don’t touch your hair when you are with me. Your arms are ugly. It is no use explaining anything to you, your brain is too old. You guys are the most boring parents I know. I am not looking forward to [...]
Joy: an unnecessary distraction
Kitty Kilian, Joy: an unnecessary distraction, mixed media 17 x 24 cm/7 x 9,5 in Does it ever happen to you, I wonder. It happens to me all the time. It happened today. I put a somewhat cynical text on a new piece – and I also manipulated the image so that the young [...]
Women, wit and daily life: an interview with Caren Garfen
Caren Garfen, Wafer Thin, screen print and embroidery on linen Women, daily life, the use of text and humor in artworks: Caren Garfen is about all the things I like. I met this London artist at Origin – the # 1 British craft fair – last fall. I wrote about her work earlier here. [...]
She threw a party
Kitty Kilian, A party, mixed media on paper, 17,5 x 24 cm For years I avoided parties as much as I could. I was one of those people who was always afraid I would not know what to say when time came for me to say something. I have been known to leave parties [...]
She wondered
Kitty Kilian, She wondered if children really improved a marriage, mixed media, 17,5 x 24 cm I remember the baby days. Smell was all of a sudden an important sense. I remember looking at my firstborn for the first time. Nothing had ever been beautiful before him. I felt like I had finally arrived. [...]
It’s July – so let’s make a Christmas Card
Yes I am early, but what the heck. This idea was on my list for a long time. And now I made it. Family holidays. Sigh. Do you too remember many a Christmas meal that went like this: Mother: Tada… and here is the hare! Father: Ah. Children: (deadly quiet) Father: (takes a bite) Er… [...]
Things they never tell you about the past
What was life really like 100 years ago? Hard to tell. One thing we can be sure of: people have always felt the same inside. Digital, 6 x 9 cm / 2,2 x 3,5 in In mat / passe-partout: 13 x 18 cm / 5 x 7 in, ready to frame
Pretty personal work 2007-2009
From 2007 to 2009 I made mixed media collages on paper and on panel that were quite personal at times. Their starting point was often a text I read or overheard somewhere. Since then I have moved on to illustrating. My current website really functions as my illustration portfolio. I made this page to show [...]
She had believed that she could make a difference in his life
Five more collages to go for the Scheene kunstroute, (art route) in Scherpenzeel, opening August 12. The Scheene is a nature reserve in Frisia. The art route of this summer is organised in old schools, garden sheds, closed down shops and artist’s studio’s. Apart form the Fishes and Birds book and prints exhibition in a [...]
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