Kim Bishop

You go through this whole life marching for change—trying to change things and then the aftershock slaps you in the face when you realize you’re right back where you started, or so you think. According to Carl Jung, we live in the entanglement of the past, present and future; a collective consciousness he called “a sympathy for all things.” This is why I draw with my Grandmother’s thread and I carve with my Grandfather’s tools, the continuous line of my path as I journey through a world that seems familiar but sometimes is not. My drawings, paintings and prints are my way to navigate the social condition of my time in my constant endeavor to measure the standards that determine my self worth through a variety of processes. My worth is that I share in an effort to bring my community together for healing through art making.
My many bodies of work focus on the entanglement of body, time, movement through this physical world which carries a universal theme of quantum remembrance and the repetition of the space that I live in today. My mission is to create a healthier world through art making. Oftentimes this has been the work I create with a sense or theme of home and a vision of my backyard; a familiar journey through the nature and color in which I am fortunate enough to live with in my San Antonio home. I am comforted here because, at this stage in my life, I am grounded in my past and in the knowledge of our collective experiences of our ancestors stored in the thread of my DNA. I am content, now, to move forward through my future experiences (again.)