Review: Like a Bird - Lena Semenkova Feature
January 23, 2008
Liberation of the human spirit from the cages of its own making always seems to me to be never far from the images that Psychobitchua creates.
Perched atop a cage from which she appears to have emerged, feathers trailing as she in turn liberates others from the cage that hung suspended above her own, her eyes cast upward, is a lithesome waif. The colors that dominate are the reds and browns of a russet autumn nature. The last bird flies free, while an entire varied flock spread their wings in an exuberant flight as they leap into the sky.
A clutch of pheasants, in the foreground a male with his plumage spread wide in grand display shields the cage that may have been the prison of the liberator, as if to hide that she has escaped her jailer. Feathers trail like some novel dress of woven plumage more fine and soft than his own, as if she too is about to leap into the air a feathered friend escaping.
Between her breasts dangles a symbol of death, a small bird’s pointed skull. A reminder perhaps of what may otherwise have been her fate.
Feature Index
- Lena Semenkova - Camouflage of Contradictions
- Digital Art and Photomanipulation
- Review: The Imitator
- Review: The Waiting
- Review: Superstar
- Interview Part 1
- Review: The Kingdom
- Review: Like a Bird
- Interview Part 2
- Review: Ghost Rider
- Review: All the snowflakes must die
- Interview Part 3
- Review: Red Skull
- Review: Prisoner of Conscience
- Review: War
- Conclusion
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