- Jamie Allen
- Dance
- Mixed Media, Watercolor, graphite
- 26 x 40 in
-
Sold
Dance 26-40
Let's Dance and when I say "dance" I mean pump up the music and free form improvise and move the body how you please dance. For a while now I have wanted to take a dance class but the thought of having to schedule something into my week doesnt bring me joy. I think I was craving more fluidity in my life and freedom of expression with my body that has nothing to do with working out. Someone put me to the challenge to dance for at least one song on most days and see how that makes me feel. So I have been dancing and I have been really enjoying it. I have noticed it brings more play into my life, mind, body and art. It is definitely a positive addition to my life and something I do not have to perfect or learn. Just close your eyes and move.
Have you ever seen a kalo leaf dance in the wind? or hundreds of shower tree leaves blow off at once? the way the stephanotis vines weave high and low as if composing music? or notice how the leaves make their own choreographed routine skidding across the pavement? If we stop to notice, nature is also calling you to dance!
Dancing in an unstructured manner, unjudged , is simply freeing. It pumps passion and releases the "hold". I surprised myself that I tend to dance to music I normally do not gravitate to such as techno. I translated that into the rainbow dashs in the lower right. Although I am open to what the day/mood brings! Bring it on!
kalo, nudibranchs, cowrie shells, wana, black spiny sea urchins, diamonds, stephanotis flowers and vine/leaves, coconut seeds, mangrove root buds, various shells - coral - algae, iridogorgia l.bella, coral fungi, sea anemone, found berry - kailua, Phlegmariurus mannii- endemic and critically endangered (far left), labordia lorenciana seeds - endemic to Kauai (bottom right), glass sponge - euplectelliadae, red limu- martensia fragilis, grateloupia hawaiiana, marine worms skeleton - polychaetes, shower tree leaves, potted plants, polyps, herkimer diamonds (from Amber), hala pepe seeds,
colored pencil, bronze acrylic, graphite