“…where the absence and disintegration of space and time become apparent, I feel an end of selfhood. I think about ways we all change each other, about the ineffable transfer of experience and wisdom from person to person…”
The artist’s drawings and 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, her 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; as the ego begins to dissolve in presence, ‘the picture draws the picture’, ‘the fabric weaves the fabric’, ‘the color paints the color’ .
Kikki Ghezzi’s work is part of private and public collections, including MuSa, La Civica Raccolta del Disegno Museo di Salo,’ Italy, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, Villa Firenze and the Italian Embassy, Washington D.C., Strule Arts Centre, Ireland, Museo Giuseppe Sciortino, Italy, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.