Artists "Review" Artists: Tom Wagner on Kimberley L. Lindsley

The Artists "Review" Artists Project was launched on June 30, 2008.  Below is a "review" of Kimberley L. Lindsley's work, Nest, written by Tom Wagner.  Kimberley provided the second jpeg, an image of Noteworthy, as well as a brief response to Tom's "review."

Kimberley currently resides in Maryland, NY, and Tom lives in Alexandria, VA.

If you would like to participate in this project, please email me at jtkirkland [at] gmail [dot] com.

           
Nest
etching from zinc plate
5” x 7”
2007

The "Review"

Love Power! Flower Power! The Love Generation! Where has it all brought us? At the threshold of a new century, into what directions do women see their roles developing? The winged creature in Nest seems to have developed appendages not compliant with its aerial arena.  It seems to be teetering yet solid on its newly found legs at the brink of an egg shaped female torso form, which is floating. Other forms recall reminiscence rather than a Petri dish and mitochondria format. A lock of hair, a daisy, the female torso, and bird indicate gender issues and identity. The bird seems to be looking into a void, or into the future, somewhere through and beyond the female torso.

Given the subject matter, I find the black and white palette a parody on the complexity of choices. It’s not all just black and white! You can’t have it one way or the other! The singular bird may have found its nest, but it’s a long way from Woodstock, and it seems to inhabit a baron ovid with a solitary outlook.

By Tom Wagner

   
Noteworthy
Etching from zinc plate
5" x 7"
2007

The Response

Mr. Wagner, thank you for your interesting analogy of Nest.  Although I am not quite sure it garners connectivity with the beatnik generation promoting random sexual exploration, recreational drug usage, non-violent antics and anti-American ideology.  While your reference to the beat generation seems obtuse in relation to Nest, the generalized reference to a negative emotionally dissatisfied woman is a closer analogy.  Nest is the beauty of feminine sexuality and the birth of anew swooning all around making me dizzy with the fresh sweet smell.  I hold within a little place of refuge that my little egg nuzzles into every month for a rest before it breaks out of its shell and flutters away.

By Kimberley L. Lindsley

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