Kendall’s work asks the viewer to notice what they have stopped seeing. Familiar things go unexamined precisely because they are familiar, and she wants to slow that down. From her studio in the Bay Area, she works across acrylic, charcoal, oil pastels, 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 familiar 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 carries 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.