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A “this looks familiar” feeling accompanied my work on this painting beyond the fact that it is a continuation of the first Through the Green painting influenced by Bridget Riley. Elements from large oil paintings done decades ago hovered respectfully at a distance: an overall quality of interconnecting shapes and an underpinning of line drawings. The link is recognized and acknowledged but the constituents have shapeshifted and taken positions distinct from the large oils.

I drew with the visual in mind of thin, curved shapes in movement. To arrive at the final composition required much back and forth between erasing and redrawing – sometimes frustrating as my hand tried over and over to satisfy my eye. I suspect that few original lines made it to the finished drawing. With shapes positioned and directed, the composition opened up to color.

The panoply of shapes. Thin curved shapes extending forward like figures intermingling in dance.

I am enjoying the unintended results. Various smaller arrangements of different colors and shapes bonding and creating smaller sub-scenes within the mise–en–scène. 

The torso is there. The movement. The walk. Simultaneously causing other movements. Time is present and moving on.