Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith's work fascinates me for multiple reasons. The connections she draws between nature and humanity are very interesting and hit a tender nerve in the viewer and even border on grotesque at times.

She masterfully creates an object that stands on its own, has no environment. But we get an entire narrative out of it. Her objects do not exist in our world but they make a world of their own; we need nothing else. Her compositions give simply the bare minimum information but are more engaging than many  artists 'more complex work.