03.25.2022
Ukraine’s National Animal, the Common Nightingale 8 x 8 inches
On the 25th of March 2022, Kay Jackson was one of the artists who’s work was auctioned off to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The event was hosted by ADIONA LONDON in Cassius&Co gallery in London, United Kingdom.
“Technically, this panel is a series of oil glazes with scratch lines revealing the first layer. Small pieces of gold leaf are added to call attention to the “distress line” intersections. It was created in January as an experimental exercise — a symbol of a bird in compromised environment. It patiently hung in my studio until the first week of March when I suddenly realized that it embodied Ukrainian flag colors and could certainly represent their national animal, the Common Nightingale. The symbolism of a bird, captured in a net, is all too appropriate in representing the entrapped Ukrainian people”