In many of my Round Dance paintings, the figures blend into the surrounding color. Their faces can be partly obscured or almost abstract. Here, I brought the figures closer. Their faces are more expressive, and their presence is less hidden.

SF Open Studios at Art Explosion StudiosSaturday and Sunday, October 3–4, 202611 a.m.–5 p.m.2425 17th Street, Studio #25San Francisco

This summer, a new branch of paintings began to evolve from two of my series, Round Dance and Landscape. For now, I have kept these works within the Round Dance section. There are not yet enough paintings for them to exist as an independent series, but more importantly, I feel that they still belong to the painterly logic of Round Dance, even though their connection to dance is less direct. My visual language within a series is never completely fixed. Change is almost always

Two woodcuts, two states of water: vibration and stillness. In Boats #5 and Boats #6, line, reflection, light, and contrast become different ways of holding movement.

The forms within the painting appear and disappear—a deliberate uncertainty I embrace. Whether arriving or fading, this non-fixity creates a sense of movement. This rawness and instability allow the imagery to exist in a vibrant flux, like music, shape-shifting and flowing.