Kelly Mark, 1967-2025.
We were afforded the great gift of one last visit with Kelly Mark before her final departure Friday February 21st. Jokes amid clouds of smoke, hands gesticulating wildly with a coffee in one and a cigarette in the other, a perfect moment if only one could stop time.
Kelly spent her career bending words to her will, playing with irony and nuance, recontextualizing the way we thought of time, love, life, loneliness, cats, death. Always with a subtle twist of the knife that would make you laugh as much as it makes you think.
Losing Kelly is painful for anyone who knew her, and while some small shade of comfort can be taken in the art she leaves behind, it pales in comparison to the enormous character and energy that was Kelly Mark.