1 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:12,320 [Kiki Smith: The Fabric Workshop] 2 00:00:19,616 --> 00:00:21,518 I made this blanket... 3 00:00:23,537 --> 00:00:26,083 I guess about two years ago now, 4 00:00:26,083 --> 00:00:27,793 at The Fabric Workshop. 5 00:00:27,977 --> 00:00:30,244 This one's backwards, also, but... 6 00:00:30,395 --> 00:00:31,883 It's just the way it goes. 7 00:00:31,883 --> 00:00:34,547 But, it was a big... 8 00:00:35,307 --> 00:00:36,836 They’re on a Jacquard-- 9 00:00:36,836 --> 00:00:39,036 made on a Jacquard loom. 10 00:00:39,036 --> 00:00:41,191 And then fulled, 11 00:00:41,191 --> 00:00:43,743 which means they rip the surface like that, 12 00:00:43,743 --> 00:00:46,998 so it's fuzzy like a Canadian blanket, kind of. 13 00:00:46,998 --> 00:00:49,053 I'm making a show at The Fabric Workshop 14 00:00:49,053 --> 00:00:50,983 of housewares, or, 15 00:00:50,983 --> 00:00:53,246 rather than make art with it in a certain sense, 16 00:00:53,246 --> 00:00:55,076 make objects-- 17 00:00:55,076 --> 00:00:57,170 make daily life things. 18 00:00:57,513 --> 00:00:59,422 I have lots of ideas of things to make, 19 00:00:59,422 --> 00:01:00,509 but I'm not good at... 20 00:01:00,509 --> 00:01:01,784 I realize I'm good at doing 21 00:01:01,784 --> 00:01:03,717 what I can do in my own power, 22 00:01:03,717 --> 00:01:05,668 out of my own physicality. 23 00:01:05,668 --> 00:01:07,915 And then, like, a little extension out from that. 24 00:01:07,915 --> 00:01:10,547 But, I'm not good at, um... 25 00:01:10,547 --> 00:01:12,553 you know, to manufacture things. 26 00:01:12,553 --> 00:01:14,122 [SMITH, OFF-SCREEN] Yeah. No, here's my list. 27 00:01:15,074 --> 00:01:18,508 [The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA] 28 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,399 [SMITH] Okay... 29 00:01:23,544 --> 00:01:24,667 [WOMAN, SUE PATTERSON, LAUGHS OFF-SCREEN] 30 00:01:24,667 --> 00:01:26,831 [SMITH] These are the things that are done. 31 00:01:27,330 --> 00:01:29,760 [PATTERSON OFF-SCREEN CONTINUES LAUGHING] Nothing like a mega-sized list! 32 00:01:30,674 --> 00:01:32,183 [PATTERSON] This is not the 'tuck in your shirt pocket' thing... 33 00:01:32,183 --> 00:01:34,508 [SMITH] I have twenty years of these. 34 00:01:34,969 --> 00:01:38,129 Okay, I have this big silver finger bowls. 35 00:01:38,129 --> 00:01:39,476 [PATTERSON] Mmm hmm. 36 00:01:39,476 --> 00:01:40,790 [SMITH] I have the packing blankets I made 37 00:01:40,790 --> 00:01:41,988 at The Mattress Factory. 38 00:01:41,988 --> 00:01:43,608 [PATTERSON] Yup, with the birds on them... 39 00:01:43,608 --> 00:01:45,176 [SMITH] "Tailbone A.D." 40 00:01:46,436 --> 00:01:49,604 Skull...the skull sculpture which is a doorstop. 41 00:01:49,604 --> 00:01:50,327 [PATTERSON] Yup. 42 00:01:50,715 --> 00:01:52,551 [PATTERSON] I've worked with Kiki 43 00:01:52,551 --> 00:01:54,425 probably over the last two-and-a-half years. 44 00:01:54,425 --> 00:01:56,993 I've worked at The Fabric Workshop for thirteen. 45 00:01:56,993 --> 00:01:58,174 So, to put that in context, 46 00:01:58,174 --> 00:01:59,435 I've worked with a lot of different people, 47 00:01:59,435 --> 00:02:00,107 So, it's sort of... 48 00:02:00,107 --> 00:02:01,999 You get a new experience each time. 49 00:02:01,999 --> 00:02:05,442 And she's primarily doing, with us, textile-related things. 50 00:02:05,582 --> 00:02:06,412 [Sue Patterson, Project Manager] 51 00:02:06,412 --> 00:02:08,874 Anything fabric-related, we can whip it up faster, 52 00:02:08,874 --> 00:02:10,305 and knock a screen of something off. 53 00:02:10,305 --> 00:02:12,395 So, she loves that facility. 54 00:02:13,079 --> 00:02:15,274 She appreciates working with people that have other skills 55 00:02:15,274 --> 00:02:17,199 that aren't available at her house. 56 00:02:17,756 --> 00:02:18,787 [MAN] Kiki? 57 00:02:19,505 --> 00:02:21,443 On the fabric, do you want them, like, 58 00:02:21,443 --> 00:02:22,905 straight up and down? 59 00:02:23,367 --> 00:02:24,683 [SMITH] Oh, I thought they were sort of 60 00:02:24,683 --> 00:02:26,735 going on an angle, aren't they? 61 00:02:26,735 --> 00:02:27,936 [MAN] Is that what you want? 62 00:02:27,936 --> 00:02:28,503 [SMITH] Yeah. 63 00:02:28,503 --> 00:02:29,148 [MAN] Okay. 64 00:02:29,148 --> 00:02:29,674 [SMITH] Yeah. 65 00:02:29,674 --> 00:02:30,873 [MAN] So assume, like, this... 66 00:02:30,873 --> 00:02:31,837 [SMITH] Let's see if you straighten it, 67 00:02:31,837 --> 00:02:33,156 what it looks like. 68 00:02:34,218 --> 00:02:37,156 No. It should go at an angle 69 00:02:37,156 --> 00:02:37,870 [MAN] Like that. 70 00:02:37,870 --> 00:02:38,520 [SMITH] Yeah. 71 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:39,168 [MAN] Okay. 72 00:02:43,184 --> 00:02:45,578 [PATTERSON] Kiki will be making a mixed bag of things. 73 00:02:46,551 --> 00:02:48,319 And some of those she's working on today. 74 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:49,411 The wallpaper is one. 75 00:02:49,411 --> 00:02:50,750 The coverlet... 76 00:02:50,750 --> 00:02:51,857 Another blanket is one. 77 00:02:51,857 --> 00:02:53,487 The little flip doll-- 78 00:02:53,487 --> 00:02:55,412 the owl-cat doll--is one. 79 00:02:55,412 --> 00:02:56,813 She's doing a bunch of 80 00:02:56,813 --> 00:02:59,442 cast-silver jewelry objects. 81 00:02:59,442 --> 00:03:02,350 A colander that has a constellation. 82 00:03:02,350 --> 00:03:04,689 And the wonderful thing about Kiki that I love 83 00:03:04,689 --> 00:03:08,413 is that she's making art twenty-four hours a day. 84 00:03:08,413 --> 00:03:09,813 It's like you go to her house, 85 00:03:09,813 --> 00:03:11,718 and there's everything all over the place. 86 00:03:11,718 --> 00:03:13,583 People are, you know, calling on the phone, 87 00:03:13,583 --> 00:03:15,610 and there's a pot of glue under the table, and... 88 00:03:15,610 --> 00:03:20,550 It's this really seamless experience for her-- 89 00:03:20,550 --> 00:03:22,487 That there's no border between 90 00:03:22,487 --> 00:03:25,211 going to the studio and making artwork. 91 00:03:25,211 --> 00:03:26,288 And that's really great, 92 00:03:26,288 --> 00:03:28,395 because it's just natural. 93 00:03:39,508 --> 00:03:42,444 [SMITH] It'll be a queen-sized bed blanket, so, 94 00:03:42,754 --> 00:03:45,842 it has the hands with the flowers there, 95 00:03:45,842 --> 00:03:47,350 and then the hands with the candles 96 00:03:47,350 --> 00:03:48,581 and the bird. 97 00:03:48,581 --> 00:03:50,888 And then the bottom part are the heads. 98 00:03:52,102 --> 00:03:56,393 The back side will be the weeping willows there. 99 00:04:01,416 --> 00:04:02,469 [SMITH] Perfect! 100 00:04:05,671 --> 00:04:07,087 It looks alright... 101 00:04:07,576 --> 00:04:10,435 I mean, it looks like wallpaper in... 102 00:04:10,435 --> 00:04:11,511 the kitchen. 103 00:04:11,511 --> 00:04:12,348 [LAUGHS] 104 00:04:13,838 --> 00:04:15,034 1960-something. 105 00:04:15,034 --> 00:04:16,350 [MAN] In the drawing room. In the drawing room. 106 00:04:16,350 --> 00:04:17,720 [SMITH] A la 1960s. 107 00:04:18,550 --> 00:04:19,958 It's just what I wanted... 108 00:04:19,958 --> 00:04:20,650 [MAN] Just what you need! 109 00:04:20,650 --> 00:04:23,326 [SMITH] Just what I wanted it to look like.