Karina Gill grew up in New York and New Jersey and has been living in San Francisco for twelve years. Gill is a filmmaker and musician whose projects are the bands Cindy and Flowertown.
About her work:
I almost always start with an observation that, by unexplainable lines, lights up a web of association between the thing seen out there in the world, experience from my life, mood, and something I call impersonal, i.e. something that feels true in an impersonal way. For a song, I often only have one connection to start with -- someone I see on the street might light up a memory of a private mood -- and, if the song is worthwhile, that one line will pull other, unexpected, things into the structure of the song and make its own sense. For visual work, there's an image that itself carries unexplainable but compelling coherence and that one image then leads to variations and explorations of whatever it's holding.