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Artist Statement for Kaila Farrell Smith
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All of my artwork is depicting light and shadow at extreme's, through intense color and high contrast. My subject matter come's from different places within myself and my interactions with the world and nature. I love to paint portraits, so you will find faces from the past as well as people who are in my life now. Recently, I have been abstracting portraits of animals, with the idea to render animal spirits. My animal spirits live within a memory landscape. Here my memory landscape is not painted from reality, but from my imagination and usually use a palatte knife to attain the surreal surface. Many times in these memory landscapes I will have stencils of my hand prints, these are a symbol of prayers. I chose to paint animals in nature to show my concern for the environment. Human's impact on this earth is causing catastrophic change. The animals are feeling these changes first, we need to see this extinction and realize that this is our fate too, if we don't change. My goal is for my compositions to jump out at the viewer, with the eyes of the spirit animals telling you to pay attention.
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