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 present, but it...