Kiki Smith captivated me from the moment I encountered her 90s abject sculptures in college — I couldn’t look away from those taboo bodies and their refusal to hide their bleeding, leaking, falling apart. I was drawn to her later work, too, her drawings of cats and stars, but for a long time, I couldn’t understand how these (seemingly unrelated) interests fit together in one artist’s practice — until recently. It was such a pleasure not only to see her early work installed alongside her later work in her current solo exhibition The Moon Watches the Earth, on view at Pace through January 10, but to write about it for exhibits in new york.