Kristin Keane
California, USA
Writing
Artist in Residence, 2026
↗ www.thisisnotreallyhere.space
Artist Statement
My creative nonfiction is largely concerned with form-bending and hybridity, paying special attention to time—its capabilities in the natural world, and its role as a unifier in the experience of being alive. Two beliefs motor my work: that examination of naturalistic and non-human principles can help us make sense of universal experiences of mortality and death; and, that readers need sense-making experiences to meet them in their own reflections of time with empathy and recognition of how its circumstances can strand and unmoor us as living beings. My work puts the limits of empirical knowledge, the linear grief process, and denial of death into question. I foreground the strangeness of loss and mutability of our identities in its wake, and push for more expansive ways of thinking about its role in our lives through experimental forms which I often collage and shape lyrically.
While at Headlands
While at Headlands I plan to complete a book-length work about sleep and memory, and to spend time encountering the wildlife and landscape of the Headlands as inspiration for a new collection of essays about animals and time.
Selected Work
