Three years ago conceptual artists Kit Abate and Daniel Mariotti began collaborating.

Presented as a timeline of everything made, every time directions changed, and the many times it almost broke them. It’s more than just showing of failures, it’s the process to get to art, it’s about the pressure to create something. The paramount work made through this collaboration is the awareness that good art can’t be pushed. It takes time, undetermined and not defined by deadlines. This is the result of all the effort spent to collaborate and all the ways it went wrong. 

If only the art was better.

Kit Abate is convinced no one reads artist bios, yet she still writes them. She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art from Arizona State University in 2016. As a visual artist, her interests lie in the division between the public persona and the private self. Her work also explores her fascination with the boundary between creation and curation. She is a member of Eye Lounge Gallery and artist collective in downtown Phoenix.  Kit currently lives, works, and sits on her roof in Tempe Arizona.

Daniel Mariotti is some dude that continually wonders why he chooses to make art. He has two BFA degrees that can’t be confirmed by ASU because they don’t show your concentration on the diploma because, “it would cost too much”. No, he isn’t bitter about this or holds grudges. By using the word “he” it sounds like someone else is writing about him but that is never the case. He’s writing about himself. And it’s making him uncomfortable. This self realization is going to make him stop abru