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Kate Coningford | “I Come With Knives”

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The artwork contains short overlapping black lines arranged in jagged, angular shapes which fill up a rectangular field; some of the closed shapes formed by the overlapping lines are filled with red or purple watercolor paint.

Kate Coningford, "I Come With Knives," Summer 2021, Sumi ink, watercolor on paper, 7 x 9"

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This piece was made by using a flat piece of balsa wood to stamp letters with sumi ink onto paper, and then painting in some of the shapes that resulted from the overlapping. The text is lyrics from an IAMX song called “I Come With Knives”, and it is deliberately illegible. I did want the piece to be sharp and edgy, along with a suggestion of danger or blood.

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