[John Reidy]

Kim-

I haven't been very active online this year and ran across your painting. I again send you my congratulations on a beautiful piece.

My first reaction was you have acheived a new level. My sense of your work has always been one of admiration.

My next sense was of intruding. I felt that this woman is in an intimate moment of exposure, just alone and in her own world, with her own thoughts. I felt that my presence would only be an imposition.

And then the artist in me inspected and came to my face as a smile.

Thank you for my smile. Good work.