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In the early 1980s, Kiki Smith
enjoyed a considerable underground reputation for an eerie, bio-obsessed repertoire which
included paintings of insects or body parts on tie-dyed backgrounds, CAT scan and x-ray
photography, a sculpture of a rotting hand suspended in a muck-filled Mason jar, and
severed-finger earring multiples. Following a period of training as an emergency medical
technician in 1985, her art became focused on sculpturesand drawings of individual
internal organs or organic systems, particularly those involving digestion and
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