Title: Blackbird Thirteen Ways
Dates: 09.21.2008-01.09.2009
Where: Student Center Gallery, University of Baltimore, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201
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The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
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Reads the 3rd stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. For Kini, "the poem itself, um, has fascinated me, confused me, confounded me, made me laugh, made me cry."
Image of Blackbird 2
The beginnings of the final work pose in her studio:
Kini talks about how the poem influenced her final piece and the search for movement on paper...
And Kini's story doesn't end with her blackbirds. That is, the technique she developed to create movement from layering Japanese paper together and drawing and scraping and waxing almost ad infinitum each piece has directly influenced her most current work for the past 8 months. Her new series of backbones and silhouettes of torsos and spines are multi-layered paintings on long thin tapestry-like canvases. "If you touch them," she says, "they feel like skin, they feel like something that maybe once was alive."
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