Kendall’s work asks the viewer to notice what they have stopped seeing. Familiar things go unexamined because they are so familiar, but she believes they are worth exploring more closely. From her studio in the Bay Area, she works across acrylic, charcoal, oil pastels, colored pencils, fabric, and sculptural mixed media, but the question stays the same regardless of the material.

Georgia O'Keeffe's skulls, skies, and flowers remind her that ordinary subjects still hold detail worth representing, and she admires how precisely O’Keeffe registers variation in color, shape, and texture. Leonard Cohen's music, and the memory of listening to it with her family, taught her how creative work holds personal meaning. Traveling with her family has pushed her to preserve specific memories in what she makes.

She wants her work to make someone feel something: a memory, a question, a different way of seeing something familiar.