The circus offers a
diverse source of imagery, a microcosm of life, dark both
intellectually and emotionally. The work is poised between
darkness and light, sleeping and waking, the unconscious and
conscious. It deals with creation myths, heroic journeys and
symbols of personal transformation. My work has both a literal
and metaphorical meaning the latter being very important to
me. A tiger jumping through a hoop of fire into the darkness
creates a powerful composition. On a metaphorical level, this
image represents a personal rite of passage. As metaphors
of human feelings, my photographs exploit the effects of cast
shadows and movement revealing an unseen world. I am driven
to create work steeped in psychological tension.
"Kimberly Gremillion's circus work unambiguously
belongs to the world of fine art rather than of reportage.
Gremillion addresses her subjects with all the verve of
fashion photography that is nonetheless tempered by darkness.
Gremillion's work is a series of stylized abstractions
of the circus, very different from Weston's in their dynamism
and in the quality of tension and menace in each, which
has been described as dangerous, yet beautiful."
Dr. Ellen Handy
An excerpt from the book, Images from the World Between, in conjunction
with an exhibition traveling to museums throughout the United States by the American
Federation of Arts, New York
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