Living Room Dancers #3

Mixed media: colored pencil and watercolor

Arches Hot Press 300gsm paper 8”x10”

I used to be a dancer. As a kid, it was my first artistic love. As an adult I taught dance and movement for actors and physical theater. Then I changed my life, and a few years after that I came down with a fatigue illness most likely the result of long covid. I can’t dance anymore. But I found some screen shots I took of myself while dancing alone in the living room to online Gaga classes in 2020 (by far the best thing to have happened in my life during those grim pandemic years), and decided to play with them in exaggerated color, expression, and setting. I can’t dance anymore. But this is, absolutely, the next best thing.