K.K. DePaul is an explorer of secrets, combining and recombining bits and pieces of memory to make sense of her family stories. “I have always been fascinated by multiple interpretations, double exposures, and the ambiguities that arise depending on which character is telling the story.
My process begins with a collection of elements...images...writing. As I move the elements around, a visual narrative begins to take shape, signaling a new understanding of parallel stories. My use of collage indicates a story told in two voices, representing identities that have been torn apart, stripped, reflected upon, and ultimately reconstructed.”
Kim’s award-winning work as a textile artist and photographer has received national and international attention, and has been included in the corporate collections of: Smith-Kline, The Mayo Clinic, and Capital Blue Cross, and the private collections of photographers: Charlotte Niel, Christopher James, Sophie Zenon, and Sarah Moon. Her work has been published in Black&White Magazine, EyeMazing, Diffusion, and PhotoWorld (China). Most recently, she has been the recipient of the 10th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, with two exhibitions in Barcelona, and she was part of the exhibition, Tribe, at the Fox Talbot Museum in the UK.
