It includes this line: Each stage is a link in the chain of life. At times, animals appear, and other times they become hybrid humans. This poet thought about all that occurs between birth and death in this poem called The Cycle of Life. Sometimes the characters are enthralled in a fight, a physical confrontation without clear boundaries. A female nude appears sometimes like a huge material figure, a fertility goddess, or a fragile and vulnerable character. Many of the drawings show figures leaning against one another, sharing a tender caress.
The drawings describe relational situations and carry an emotive power. The point of departure remains in the background as the drawing emerges through a language which is entirely personal and private (regardless of whether the source is a book of Rodin, a Disney's movie, a Greek mythology, a documentation of Sumo wrestlers, or a news article). Nishri often draws inspiration from other artworks, from illustrations in books, and current events. They reveals itself through a simple and humble contour, framing a singular shape, a confrontation, a fleeting moment. The images are neither layered nor compositionally complex. There are no tricks of perception nor proportional correctness. There is no attempt at building texture, no background to ground or contextualize, no sense of time.
In Nimrod's drawings, there is neither light nor shadow. Before all the figures, before all the animals, the touches, relationships, and inside jokes, there was simply a line. A simple line of pencil on paper. This line, in the hands of Nimrod Nishri, is naked and vunerable.
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