artist Archives - Katherine Oktober Matthews

Publication of my essay on Maija Tammi’s work in Contact Sheet

August 19, 2018
Writing

This year's annual publication by Light Work, Contact Sheet, features the work of artist-in-residence Maija Tammi, together with my essay on her work. It covers a dead rabbit, living cancer cells, and immortal creatures.

Audrey Tautou: The (Un)importance of a Famous Face

March 14, 2018
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"I will always have problems because I’m a self-made photographer. When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot."
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)

Mandy Smith: The Use of a Blank Piece of Paper

November 8, 2016
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“I guess with any creative person, you’ve always got this bombardment of insecurity when you’re analyzing your own work. So there’s always some sort of insecurity with it, but that’s what pushes you to your next project because you’ve never really solved the use of the blank piece of paper.”
—Mandy Smith (TEDxAmsterdam)

Plot Points: How Reading and Writing Have Ruined Us All

May 20, 2014
Essays, Writing, Writing Highlights

“While it’s relatively straight-forward to identify relevance in a story, expert constellation-formers that we are, here’s the rub: life is chock-full of irrelevance and we all like to play narrator.”
(Versal Blog, 2014)