![]() ![]() ![]() His reaction was very touching, I’ll never forget it: he stared at the painting for a long time and then he said, “I am my mother’s son.” YZKWhen I finally finished the portrait, Peter came to see it at my studio. His portraits of Tara, his niece-those are incredible. PMKami’s portraits can be really intense. Imagine living with his image on and off for several years-it actually made me feel closer to him. I’m not sure why, some paintings just take longer than others. It took a long time to build the Pantheon in Rome, too, I suppose, but both were worth the wait. PMThat painting took a very, very long time for Kami to paint, but it’s remarkable. She has said it’s the most serious portrait ever done of me.ĪMCDKami often depicts sitters with their eyes closed. He did my portrait, in fact it’s Jane’s favorite portrait of me. The portraiture I like because of the psychological intensity behind it. ![]() PMOh, I like them both, but for different reasons. I really have known you a long time.ĪMCDIn general, do you have a preference toward Kami’s portraiture or his abstract paintings? YZKThey were photographic images of two minarets in Iran that I mounted on canvas. PMI have two photographic works of towers from the early 1990s. YZKIt was around the time Isabelle was born.ĪMCDPeter, what struck you early on about Kami’s work? That’s the only marker I’ve got other than when I graduated high school. Peter Marino Was Isabelle born yet? She was born in 1991-that’s how I judge time, pre-Isabelle and after. One evening Peter and his wife, Jane, came over and we all went out to dinner to an Italian restaurant in TriBeCa. Kami We met in the early 1990s through a very close mutual friend, Charles, with whom I used to share a studio. How did you and Peter first meet each other? Alison McDonald I’m curious to start at the beginning. ![]()
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