About Dancers From Chaos

Eldonrek


     Some years ago, I saw a simple black figure printed on a homemade advertisement. It changed me. I wanted to do something like it. So I started painting quick, mostly-unplanned forms over a sort of stick figure. I used black house paint and trashed computer paper fished out of a dumpster.

     I performed painting after painting--- with no formal thought, . . . only patience that something likeable would emerge on its own. Out of two thousand attempts, I kept probably twenty of those paintings, throwing away the remainder.

     The figures in those paintings seemed to come out of nowhere, so I called them Dancers From Chaos. Several years later, I adapted a few of these to canvas, enlarging them and adding a bit of color. The images seen here (under this category) are of these adaptations.

     Basically, these three paintings express the idea that gesture exceeds mass. Motion's form continues to exist where form's mass is absent, broken or barely represented. In other words, motion transcends mass, both containing mass and connecting mass to something greater.






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