Three African Ballerinas black art Baring flesh is always risky

Baring flesh is always risky

I imagine that they had just eaten and are just relaxing as they digest their dinner

This is spiritual—deep and abiding

brings these portraits to life for me

is not central to the experience of the art piece

Three African Ballerinas black art Baring flesh is always risky36x48, mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas. This mixed media style, which recalls quilting traditions in black spaces, dramatically captures the grace, beauty, and complexity of these young ballerinas. The art experience of engagement is always a dialectic. Art interacting with the viewer. Meaning or understanding is produced in between the gaze. If not meaning or understanding, then a sensation of feeling. This engagement will be different for