Kimi Tayler
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls, wool (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls, wool (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls, wool (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls, wool (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of performance with artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls. Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland. (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of performance with artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls. Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland. (2017)
Resurrection of a dead canary Documentation of performance with artificial kúluskítur/marimo/lake balls. Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland. (2017)
(the nature of beauty) Mixed media on wood, 2010
Oil on board, 2006
Oil on canvas, 2008
Each work in this series uses one of my own fingerprints continuing my constant fascination with identity. Contained within each black mark, as a child looks for the faces in the clouds or monsters in the shadows, are 100s of figures. The drawings in the series almost take the form of a visual diary of anonymous moments, unidentified beings and encounters sometimes imagined and sometimes real.
(Middle finger, left hand) Pen on paper, 2011
(Thumb right hand) Pen on paper, 2011
(Middle finger right hand) Pen on paper, 2011
Pen and acrylic on board, 2016
Pen and acrylic on board, 2016
“33” is an installation that combines painting, drawing, digital images, objects, text and documentation of performance in order to enhance my exploration of the “whole”. As people we are in a constant state of flux and it is impossible to create one single work that can fully illustrate this shifting dynamism. Every work I have created is (one facet of) yesterday’s portrait. And each fragment I add enriches and expands the changing ways the viewer responds to these new takes on identity.