Kim Smith Claudell

https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/

My creative practice is one of discovery, experiment, and play. I seek and highlight the moments along the creative process in which gestures of physical forces (gravity / entropy / time) intersect with the ephemeral magic of being (consciousness / intuition / wordless poetry).

Formally, the artwork I create intersects painting, sculpture, performance, and installation while using a variety of natural, discarded, and technological media. Conceptually, my work uses the art object with its experiential presence as a material form to represent the otherwise unnameable. I want to create a space of slowing, of noticing, and connecting—to create work that reveals itself through time and unfolds as it expands.

I think of my work as a theater set, a backdrop, a framework that seeks to enable the mind to wander, to discover, to feel. A context for another’s experiences that intersect my own: the personal that is distilled and abstracted, humbly presented through that which material forms can carry. My practice is rooted in ritual, a sacred space to find and reveal that which is outside of ourselves, which connects us, and also escapes our limits of language.