FACE IN

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face by Kimberly Donolon

I see the determined and dodged struggle to hope that sits in people's face who have struggled deep in their souls with outside forces like addiction, abandonment, cruel men and the like. The way they purse their lips provides a slight variation; no, it makes an imperfect emphasis upon the dichotomy of struggle and pain. I've seen this look so many times, and always pause, look within to see my Medicines and listen closely because maybe there is something I can give in words, or a touch that makes the pain lessen, and their hope flicker less uncertainly, and beam steady a bit more.

This may or may not be your intention, Kimberly Donolon, but the first things I saw reached into me, and spoke these words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories December 12, 2013 at 7:41pm





face by Kimberly Donolon titled WITHDRAWN (2015)

Now, this is fun!

KD

Day 6: Favorite Book Character "Monster at the end of this book" 

Kimberly Donolon's 'Monster at the end of this book' (2012)

This is fun. Playing and playing as an artist with art is fun. Your pieces bring out the simple joy I got as a kid sitting quietly somewhere Mommy deemed a good place to sit and draw and I'd draw and dream. Draw and dream is that the lot of your life?

Yeah?
blue
Good for you. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories December 12, 2013 at 4:32pm 

 

Works of a Depth

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Kimberly Donolon's Off The Backboard 8x10 inch Sharpie paint markers on canvas (2012)
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Amber Blues no. 22 by Kimberly Donolon, a commissioned piece acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 in. (2012)

Kimberly Donolon somehow captured the deep feeling of the blues, and somehow translated the deep feeling of old Blues men's stories of entrapment in Jim Crow's clutches. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (2.7.16)

BEAR WOMAN

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Mama Bear by Kimberly Donlon is an 8" x 10" oil painting done Nov. 2013

This is a powerful something I don't have the language for. The body, the energy of the woman's body and the bear's head are inexplicably linked into a story lined up with a connection to land, birth and a history of reconciling the aspects of being as our tradition taught. - Gregory E. Woods 12.12.13

WHAT AM I SAYING? WHAT AM I SEEING?

 Kimberly Donlon's piece titled: "Back Board"

 Sharpie Paint Markers 9x12" — at University of Central Florida.

"This is a sexy dance and a sensuous woman in the forever dance of perpetual motion moving inside an older, wiser and wizened woman deep into the meditations of her heat and the mercurial quality of her soul in a body composed of her youth, and promise of better, and its maturity and depth. The picture asks of me the questions I've heard times before by older women." ~ Gregory E. Woods, 12.12.13

sacred form of Valerie from Mauritius 

PRACTICE TWENTY-ONE

SP7

Charcoal by Kimberly Donlon  

There is a way some people see other people with states of mind a psychologist may diagnose as a serious disorder needing prescription drugs. The same person seen by a spiritual healer, or medicine person may see into the depths and contrasts of the spirit of the face to interpret the spirit's condition to gauge the fragmentation of the soul, and the trajectory of its shattered pieces. There are terms for people who cannot distinguish faces the way most do. These people see the world of faces in variations that are difficult to explain, but with certain gifts of vision a few artists, and spiritual people can merge with these people and glimpse how the world looks to them. Other times there are musicians whose music is profound in the art of conjuring the images of another's view of the world with sound for others to glimpse the same.

I've seen people's face like this while others saw in the same face a handsome face, and I was left seeing the condition of a soul, a state of mind, or an emotional state forming into something troubled, dangerous, or crazed. Some times a life was saved seeing these things. To save a life at this level of being requires having a voice and practiced action in service to others. - Gregory E. Woods, Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper 12.12.13

SP6 Charcoal
by Kimberly Donlon
Nov. 13, 2013 

Mamma Bear

Interesting Time-Lapse for "Mamma Bear"
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Birth to life from pain is...

KD

"Day 1 of the Drawing Challenge. Didn't come out exactly as planned, but never the less it came out interesting!" - Kimberly Donlon, artist

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Jan. 3, 2012

I see the determined and dodged struggle to hope that sits in people's face who have struggled deep in their souls with outside forces like addiction, abandonment, cruel men and the like. The way they purse their lips provides a slight variation; no, it makes an imperfect emphasis upon the dichotomy of struggle and pain. I've seen this look so many times, and always pause, look within to see my Medicines and listen closely because maybe there is something I can give in words, or a touch that makes the pain lessen, and their hope flicker less uncertainly, and beam steady a bit more. 

This may or may not be your intention, but the first things I saw reached  into me, and spoke these words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.12.13

In contrast to that pain is the soft gentle Amanda Seyfried wrapped in silk.  The actress, like any person I am sure has had many challenges to arrive at the lofty spot of a successful actress. How it shows on her face, her countenance is subject to review because she is in the public eye, and so many people measure themselves against celebrities. Terror of their own mirrors goes against the successful strategies of successful people. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.12.13 

Touch of LIFE

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Kimberly Elizabeth 

Kimberly Donlon on December 7, 2013 at Greenpoint Gallery show with her work assembled for appreciation and sale.

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Kimberly Donlon's "Alice Where's Your Face?" sold at the University of Central Florida November 13, 2013. It art is an acrylic measured at 22 x 24". Prints are being sold at https://www.etsy.com/shop/KimberlyDonlon    

Alice Where Is Your Face?

My first thought seeing this piece was "The victims' faces are always rendered invisible by the cruel intent of the bully, and the bad guy." My first emotion was one of surprise. My feel for the colors and the sense of shadow descending upon the scene lent to a sense of foreboding for Alice's life. Then I thought, "this is Alice in Wonderland. She'll be OK!"  But, that thought went away because it was an illusion, and I thought how easy fear sets in and plays with your mind surrounded by the sense that the familiar is now your enemy and no nice words or clever tongue will save you...

And then I thought, "I wonder what the artist dreamt?" and then I was grateful for my distance from the immediate circumstance Alice seems to be in. At that a measure of guilt gripped me, and wrestled with the part of me that will fight for someone who can't fight for themselves, or doesn't know they are in danger. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.13.13

Kissed!!! 
The artist is also a substitute teacher in New Jersey.