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This piece combines the transformational energies of fire and dance. I made this painting immediately upon returning from Burning Man in September, 2017. I spent a lot of time there watching people's incredible artwork burn up in front of the desert landscape. The glorious fires helped me release a lot of energy that I didn't need to be carrying around in my life anymore. The rest of the time, I danced and danced and danced. Creating and soaking up fantastically fun experiences. "Dance Fire" is meant to bring that energy to you, of shaking things up, releasing the blasé and creating fun, fantasy, joy and rejuvenation.

I have never seen artmaking as a choice, but rather as a necessary and obvious part of living. What I am creating is always changing, but my commitment to creativity is an inevitable constant. The way I see it, the process of artmaking helps to integrate the endless information coming into the brain with the already present and always working imagination. It helps to process past experiences and vision future ones, all the while giving my mind, body and spirit a pathway to actually BE in the present moment of creation. As I paint, I notice my breathing slows down. I enter a zone of concentration that last hours longer than I can concentrate on any other activity. Even though my left arm is doing most of the work and I am often for hours...