The Language of Hands
Kim Bellavia is a local artist with a home studio in Honeoye, NY. She received a 2016 Individual artist grant from NYSCA through The Finger Lakes Community Arts Grants program in Auburn NY to create an installation titled, “The Language of Hands”. Her work will be showing for one evening at Café Sol, 4503 State Route 64 in Bristol NY On Wednesday, October 5th from 4-7pm. The installation consists of 33 hands casted from members of the community. The rendering hands will be displayed on the tables of the café and each hand will be holding something found in nature or made from The natural environment creating a conversation among hands. Hor d'oeuvre's, will be served along with tastings from Heron Hill winery and Nedlo Brewery.

As an artist Kim creates sculptures and paintings that give form and contrast to the notions of being and the natural world, rooted in the concept that the natural environment in which we live is a reflection of who we are as beings. Her work is a process of making a dialogue with the natural world in relation to the human experience, depicting how nature and human nature weave themselves into the intrigue of life and the entropy of existence. Her inspiration for this installation came from numerous commissions of casting hands, thoughts of a sense of community and acceptance that is so needed in our world today, an overwhelming love for the natural environment and an excerpt Titled, “Human Hands” From the Cherokee Feast of Days by Spotted tail.