dancing creek, 24x20” oil on portrait linen, at the end of my painting day today
2:46 PM: today i started dancing creek, on one of the 3 24x20” extra fine linen cnavases i cut from the roll 2 days ago. this dancing figure with his arms passionately outstretched has been appearing in recent work. i captured the image from our tv screen, and for me he epitomizes the joy of moving ones body to music. there are no national boundaries here; moving to music is universal.
whereas in the previous works where he appears there are other figures in the space, here he’s the central and only figure. during my years in greece, i witnesses many scenes of dancers passionately and spontaneously moving to live rembmetika music, but they never entered the space of my paintings. it seems i wasn’t ready, although my mentor tsarouchis showed me the way, creating some of his greatest masterpieces incorporating sailors dancing to rembetika.