It’s always interesting to see how an artist manifests from one medium to another. There’s a thread that runs through the work and each new medium gives way to fresh possibilities and perspectives. I find it reassuring to see a cohesive style, and to draw connections. Humans always like to see the thread. But I am also inspired when an artist’s range is such that they can keep surprising us. I’ve seen Mirena Kim’s ceramics over the years, but I never knew that she also painted and made large scale sculptures. The work is all so different that one might imagine it’s three artists at work. And maybe it is. Maybe, like Matryoshka dolls, we are all artists within an artist within an artist searching for ways to express what lives inside. It comes out in the way arrange flowers in a jar, do our makeup, or set food on a plate. It comes out in the way we tie a scarf, part our hair, or doodle on a pad of paper. It’s in everything we do. Each little thing offering a fresh possibility and perspective on the whole.