Dancing in the Dark
(2023)
Cracks in the Temple series
Dancing in the Dark works through motion rather than stance. The surface feels alive, shifting as the eye moves, with carved lines that coil, cross, and realign like pulse. There is no single path through the field. The rhythm is insistent, ritualistic, almost musical, and the darkness is not a backdrop. It is the structure that holds the motion and gives it shape.
The energy here is fluid, not fixed. It works through sensation and tempo instead of image, finding coherence through interruption rather than order. There is a sensual pull in the movement, something physical and immediate, but it never settles into ornament. This piece is not interested in clarity or narrative. It is interested in motion as intelligence, in the kind of knowing that arrives through feeling rather than explanation.
Dancing in the Dark invites the viewer into that state. Meaning is not presented. It is located through attention, through the awareness that something is happening beneath the surface that cannot quite be named. What holds is not stability, but momentum, and the quiet realization that movement itself can be grounding, even in the absence of resolution.