KARI MARBOE
Kari Marboe lives in
Oakland and is a recent graduate of California College of the Arts.
As the daughter of a New York physician, Kari is intrigued by
artistic and medical depictions of the human body. Her work explores
the relationship people have with their bodies through narrative
ceramic sculptures of animated cadavers. Kari is currently applying
to graduate school in the Bay Area and spends her time researching
the aesthetics and medical issues of the 1500s-1800s as well as
modern day medical marvels.
PEEMONSTER
"I was born on a
pirate ship. I became aware of my love for creation around age 8,
writing and illustrating a series of children's books. And as I
gradually became equally aware of how much I didn't like the concept of
existence on earth, I began to spend more time in my own head than out,
farstraying from my childhood endeavors and years of studying cartoons
that come out of the television and into toddlers' imaginations. I
began to think a lot and spent more and more time exploring the depths
and small corners that most people don't see, or don't want to see- and
soon found myself not wanting to cease. I became addicted to the
'what-if's and the 'how-so's, and also the 'why's that were kept in the
dark, and soon found myself in a neutral state to all of the ideas that
swarmed around me. I wanted to know. I wanted to think from a thousand
minds, and see through a million eyes. I wanted to conceive the same
innocence of my children's books in the logic of a killer, and find
peace and protection in a state of distress. My creating is merely an
attempt to make such desires whole..
Each of my darlings share a story. Sometimes they are timid, sometimes
they are loud, sometimes they are good, sometimes they are bad, sometimes
they are angry, sometimes they are sad, sometimes they are
mean, sometimes they are nice, and sometimes they are something completely
unknown to this world. But I love them all the same.
Every time I begin a new creation, it is almost impossible to predict how
it will be in the end, mainly because I am not in control, do not take
control, and I do not like to favor my own mind. A lot of people will see
otherwise, but hold no affect, as the concerns of others is never a
concern of my own.
In a thought concluding, I do not believe one should have to be schooled
in the art of self-expression. I find such an institution to be a stifle
on one's own awareness of himself, thus crippling honest and true
expression of self through creation, and corrupting the freedom thereof."
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