Though rooted in drawing and painting my work, nourished by writings, often includes various experimental forms – installations, sculptures, textiles and artist’s books. My paintings have been described as increments of time and marks in a meditative moment, where the kind of glow-time is infinite in both directions, outward in accumulated, immeasurable brush strokes and inward towards a glow point. Music exemplifies it best — retaining previous notes to understand the whole body of music, my painting does something similar — back in time and forward in time. The work is constantly unfolding, it is a process of transformation and renewal, a ‘descent’ into the light. What matters most is a fading of the self into a more impersonal process, a love and affection for the language and materials in which and from which the object is revealed, the oneness between the made and maker. As the ego begins to dissolve in presence, ‘the picture draws the picture’, ‘the fabric weaves the fabric’, ‘the color paints the color’. I consciously connect with my Moon in Pisces’ sacred energy––dreamy, magical, compassionate, limitless, sparkling, feminine. I dance with Neptune and his wife Salacia’s shimmering luminosity––shapeshifting, intangible reflection of light on the sea, at one with the entirety of creation.
Kikki’s work as been exhibited internationally and is part of private and public collections including the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU, Museo San Fedele, Milano, MuSa, La Civica Raccolta del Disegno Museo di Salo,’ Italy, Villa Firenze and the Italian Embassy, Washington D.C., Museo Giuseppe Sciortino Palermo, Italy, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.