Untitled

Untitled

Kiki Smith

1999

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From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This piece mixes two black-and-white images. The top shows a snowy forest floor with bare trees reflected in a frozen pond. The bottom has delicate white snowflakes on a dark background. On the right, there’s a strip of paper with handwritten words like *"let me freeze again to death"* repeated over and over. The snowflakes are drawn with tiny lines, almost like lace. The words on the paper feel heavy and endless, like they’re trapping you in the cold. If you like this mix of nature and text, look up lithography to see how artists print images like this.

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