0:00:07.500,0:00:12.320 [Kiki Smith: The Fabric Workshop] 0:00:19.616,0:00:21.518 I made this blanket... 0:00:23.537,0:00:26.083 I guess about two years ago now, 0:00:26.083,0:00:27.793 at The Fabric Workshop. 0:00:27.977,0:00:30.244 This one's backwards, also, but... 0:00:30.395,0:00:31.883 It's just the way it goes. 0:00:31.883,0:00:34.547 But, it was a big... 0:00:35.307,0:00:36.836 They’re on a Jacquard-- 0:00:36.836,0:00:39.036 made on a Jacquard loom. 0:00:39.036,0:00:41.191 And then fulled, 0:00:41.191,0:00:43.743 which means they rip the surface like that, 0:00:43.743,0:00:46.998 so it's fuzzy like a Canadian blanket, kind of. 0:00:46.998,0:00:49.053 I'm making a show at The Fabric Workshop 0:00:49.053,0:00:50.983 of housewares, or, 0:00:50.983,0:00:53.246 rather than make art with it in a certain sense, 0:00:53.246,0:00:55.076 make objects-- 0:00:55.076,0:00:57.170 make daily life things. 0:00:57.513,0:00:59.422 I have lots of ideas of things to make, 0:00:59.422,0:01:00.509 but I'm not good at... 0:01:00.509,0:01:01.784 I realize I'm good at doing 0:01:01.784,0:01:03.717 what I can do in my own power, 0:01:03.717,0:01:05.668 out of my own physicality. 0:01:05.668,0:01:07.915 And then, like, a little extension out from that. 0:01:07.915,0:01:10.547 But, I'm not good at, um... 0:01:10.547,0:01:12.553 you know, to manufacture things. 0:01:12.553,0:01:14.122 [SMITH, OFF-SCREEN] Yeah. No, here's my list. 0:01:15.074,0:01:18.508 [The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA] 0:01:22.600,0:01:23.399 [SMITH] Okay... 0:01:23.544,0:01:24.667 [WOMAN, SUE PATTERSON, LAUGHS OFF-SCREEN] 0:01:24.667,0:01:26.831 [SMITH] These are the things that are done. 0:01:27.330,0:01:29.760 [PATTERSON OFF-SCREEN CONTINUES LAUGHING] Nothing like a mega-sized list! 0:01:30.674,0:01:32.183 [PATTERSON] This is not the 'tuck in your shirt pocket' thing... 0:01:32.183,0:01:34.508 [SMITH] I have twenty years of these. 0:01:34.969,0:01:38.129 Okay, I have this big silver finger bowls. 0:01:38.129,0:01:39.476 [PATTERSON] Mmm hmm. 0:01:39.476,0:01:40.790 [SMITH] I have the packing blankets I made 0:01:40.790,0:01:41.988 at The Mattress Factory. 0:01:41.988,0:01:43.608 [PATTERSON] Yup, with the birds on them... 0:01:43.608,0:01:45.176 [SMITH] "Tailbone A.D." 0:01:46.436,0:01:49.604 Skull...the skull sculpture which is a doorstop. 0:01:49.604,0:01:50.327 [PATTERSON] Yup. 0:01:50.715,0:01:52.551 [PATTERSON] I've worked with Kiki 0:01:52.551,0:01:54.425 probably over the last two-and-a-half years. 0:01:54.425,0:01:56.993 I've worked at The Fabric Workshop for thirteen. 0:01:56.993,0:01:58.174 So, to put that in context, 0:01:58.174,0:01:59.435 I've worked with a lot of different people, 0:01:59.435,0:02:00.107 So, it's sort of... 0:02:00.107,0:02:01.999 You get a new experience each time. 0:02:01.999,0:02:05.442 And she's primarily doing, with us, textile-related things. 0:02:05.582,0:02:06.412 [Sue Patterson, Project Manager] 0:02:06.412,0:02:08.874 Anything fabric-related, we can whip it up faster, 0:02:08.874,0:02:10.305 and knock a screen of something off. 0:02:10.305,0:02:12.395 So, she loves that facility. 0:02:13.079,0:02:15.274 She appreciates working with people that have other skills 0:02:15.274,0:02:17.199 that aren't available at her house. 0:02:17.756,0:02:18.787 [MAN] Kiki? 0:02:19.505,0:02:21.443 On the fabric, do you want them, like, 0:02:21.443,0:02:22.905 straight up and down? 0:02:23.367,0:02:24.683 [SMITH] Oh, I thought they were sort of 0:02:24.683,0:02:26.735 going on an angle, aren't they? 0:02:26.735,0:02:27.936 [MAN] Is that what you want? 0:02:27.936,0:02:28.503 [SMITH] Yeah. 0:02:28.503,0:02:29.148 [MAN] Okay. 0:02:29.148,0:02:29.674 [SMITH] Yeah. 0:02:29.674,0:02:30.873 [MAN] So assume, like, this... 0:02:30.873,0:02:31.837 [SMITH] Let's see if you straighten it, 0:02:31.837,0:02:33.156 what it looks like. 0:02:34.218,0:02:37.156 No. It should go at an angle 0:02:37.156,0:02:37.870 [MAN] Like that. 0:02:37.870,0:02:38.520 [SMITH] Yeah. 0:02:38.520,0:02:39.168 [MAN] Okay. 0:02:43.184,0:02:45.578 [PATTERSON] Kiki will be making a mixed bag of things. 0:02:46.551,0:02:48.319 And some of those she's working on today. 0:02:48.319,0:02:49.411 The wallpaper is one. 0:02:49.411,0:02:50.750 The coverlet... 0:02:50.750,0:02:51.857 Another blanket is one. 0:02:51.857,0:02:53.487 The little flip doll-- 0:02:53.487,0:02:55.412 the owl-cat doll--is one. 0:02:55.412,0:02:56.813 She's doing a bunch of 0:02:56.813,0:02:59.442 cast-silver jewelry objects. 0:02:59.442,0:03:02.350 A colander that has a constellation. 0:03:02.350,0:03:04.689 And the wonderful thing about Kiki that I love 0:03:04.689,0:03:08.413 is that she's making art twenty-four hours a day. 0:03:08.413,0:03:09.813 It's like you go to her house, 0:03:09.813,0:03:11.718 and there's everything all over the place. 0:03:11.718,0:03:13.583 People are, you know, calling on the phone, 0:03:13.583,0:03:15.610 and there's a pot of glue under the table, and... 0:03:15.610,0:03:20.550 It's this really seamless experience for her-- 0:03:20.550,0:03:22.487 That there's no border between 0:03:22.487,0:03:25.211 going to the studio and making artwork. 0:03:25.211,0:03:26.288 And that's really great, 0:03:26.288,0:03:28.395 because it's just natural. 0:03:39.508,0:03:42.444 [SMITH] It'll be a queen-sized bed blanket, so, 0:03:42.754,0:03:45.842 it has the hands with the flowers there, 0:03:45.842,0:03:47.350 and then the hands with the candles 0:03:47.350,0:03:48.581 and the bird. 0:03:48.581,0:03:50.888 And then the bottom part are the heads. 0:03:52.102,0:03:56.393 The back side will be the weeping willows there. 0:04:01.416,0:04:02.469 [SMITH] Perfect! 0:04:05.671,0:04:07.087 It looks alright... 0:04:07.576,0:04:10.435 I mean, it looks like wallpaper in... 0:04:10.435,0:04:11.511 the kitchen. 0:04:11.511,0:04:12.348 [LAUGHS] 0:04:13.838,0:04:15.034 1960-something. 0:04:15.034,0:04:16.350 [MAN] In the drawing room. In the drawing room. 0:04:16.350,0:04:17.720 [SMITH] A la 1960s. 0:04:18.550,0:04:19.958 It's just what I wanted... 0:04:19.958,0:04:20.650 [MAN] Just what you need! 0:04:20.650,0:04:23.326 [SMITH] Just what I wanted it to look like.