Quotessence
Home / Authors / Kirsha Kaechele Biography

Kirsha Kaechele Biography

Author

Related Quotes

“It's not "You might as well,"-it's that art was the only option. My last ayahuasca -vision was a very clear vision that I had to go back to the world. I'd been having these extreme jungle-based visions-having my bones cleaned by shaman spirits, being eaten by alligators or consumed by the earth and insects-basically unifying with all things through consumption by jungle creatures. Then my last vision was of getting on a plane and heading back to the West and just dealing with it.”

WorldArtEarthSpiritVisionBonesJungleDealing With It
Author:Kirsha Kaechele
Create image

“We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out is the realization that an attachment to any kind of form is pointless. Forgive me if I seem like a complete nihilist, but if the demolition trucks show up and the buildings come down, then that just presents a new setting in which an artist can work. The real challenge is trying to conceal my delight in the process.”

TryingKindRealArtistChallengesBuildingForgivingRealizationTruckPointlessForgive MeNihilist
Author:Kirsha Kaechele
Create image

“I wouldn't want to be so presumptuous as to suggest what my neighbors should or shouldn't do. Great insights might come out of drug dealing and prostitution. I'm not qualified to say. Not that I would promote those practices. I just respect the complexity of their cultural ecosystem and think it would be pretty lame, not to mention fruitless, to waltz in with some kind of reformative agenda.”

ThinkingKindDrugInsightNeighborComplexityPresumptuousWaltz
Author:Kirsha Kaechele
Create image