#carolein smit

[oliverscarlin]

Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears) (2009)

[doecrossing]

Carolein Smit (2012)

[boyhood]

Carolein Smit 

[bebemoon]

look for the name INGA (requested by anonymous) | la perla brown sheer lace bodysuit (c. 199o's), simone rocha long embellished bow in pink, christian dior beaded pearl choker, enfants riches déprimés stockings and heels (a/w 2o24), carolein smit pearl-wrapped rat art piece (2o17), houbigant "le parfum ideal" eau de parfum (c. 192o's), french carved celluloid swan brooch (c. 192o's), pearlandi (on etsy) handmade turkish crucifix indiviulal gold charm earring, nell brinkley drawing of a girl on the phone with a cherub switchboard operator, antique victorian mesh slide garter w/ dangle tassels, oversized brown czech glass cocktail ring, antique french-style chased repoussé gilt telephone w/ carved jade inset

[castratedvader]

I want people to love my sculptures. I want them to loose their hearts to them and I do all I can to make them do so. At the same time I don't want to make this loving too easy. It’s painful, fragile, unfulfilled, and sometimes dangerous. Where are the boundaries, where does innocence become guilt? Where does life become death? That is what my work is about. The tension brought by emotional dilemmas, trying to separate right from wrong where everything evolves out of clumsiness, coincidence and misunderstanding. In my work these dilemmas exist as a complicated knot of conflicting messages.

All these collections contain images that are related to art, but also to other areas. They show the exceptional, the strange, the rare, to secure the scientific order. They lift up the supernatural to restrain the whims of nature. They suggest order and security. At the same time they warn us of the chaos that will occur as soon as we let go of this proposed order. They are images that scare us and also restrain that fear. The ambivalence makes us look with admiration and disgust.

Carolein Smit

[nataliesplatalie]

Carolein Smit, Medusa c. 2016 and Lam in hei c. 2020

[octarinespill]

Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears)

[bizarreauhavre]

Carolein Smit

[satin-carmin]

by Carolein Smit

[jennasts]

Carolein Smit 

[hypernormalized]

Carolien Smit "BYE BYE FUTURE! L'ART DE VOYAGER DANS LE TEMPS"

[doecrossing]

Carolein Smit (2011)

[snailspng]

Random PNGs, part 159.

(1. "Skinned Rabbit" by Richard T. Scott, 2. 19th c. wax model of a human head, 3. 17th c. syringe, 4. Framed piece of a saint, 5. "Homme de chagrin" by Carolein Smit, 6. 7th c. gold & garnet ring, 7. "A Florentine Lady" by Augustin Jean Moreau-Vauthier, 8. Mourning brooch, 9. Cup with bat c. 1909.)

[boyhood]

I have a new episode of my podcast All Miracles Are Strange. It's about hysterical weeping, Margery Kempe, EM Cioran, and two ceramics work by the artist Carolein Smit (above).

It's also about how I cry a lot.

In this episode, I referenced Tears and Saints by Emil Cioran, The Crying Book by Heather Christie, Cry Baby: Why Our Tears Matter by Benjamin Parry, Interior Castles by Teresa of Avila, the Book of Margery Kempe, Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey, and the essay “Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe” by Santha Bhattacharji, which appears in the book “Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination.” I tried very hard to put in some bits from Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck, but couldn't make it work this time around.

If you would like to support my work or read more of what I do, you can find me on Patreon and Substack. If you want to see my studio work, you can see it on instagram and on my website.

This episode, along with all the others, can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts

[mementomoriiv]

Carolein Smit - Wolf

[damnelves]

I LOVE YOU LIKE A DOG

I Wanna Be Your Dog 2 - AJJ / "How to be a dog" by Andrew Kane / It Will Come Back - Hozier (1) / "Isabella" by John Everett Millais (detail) / "Susanna and the Elders" by Pierre van Hanselaere (edited) / “Sinnerman” by Kwame Boateng / "a key to common lethal fungi" by Marge Piercy / “What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado” by Emily Palermo / Introduction to The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson) / "Forgive Self" by Julian Miholics / "So What's Wrong" by Ruth Stone / "I get so jealous of euthanized dogs" by June Gehringer / "The Thorn Merchant" by Yusuf Komunyakaa / "Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein" by Margaret Atwood / "Rien ne va plus" by Margarita Karapanau (trans. Karen Emmerich) / photo of a livestock guardian dog being comforted by one of the sheep he guards after saving them from a wolf attack, source unknown / "Rakker mit gouden trannen" (Rascal with golden tears) by Carolein Smit / Quote by Mary Carolyn Davies / tumblr post by 6aint / "Monster Movie" by Nicola Maye Goldberg / "Gleipnir" by Walton Ford (detail) / "You Won't" by Marcin Cienski / "Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America" by Ada Limón / It Will Come Back - Hozier (2) / "Let Dead Dogs Lie" by Silas Denver Melvin