About My Art The ability to create the illusion of defying gravity through body movement fascinates me. The poses of dancers/choregraphers like Alvin Ailey, Judith Jameson, Twyla Tharp, Martha Graham, Koresh and Rennie Harris have inspired me to create sculptures and paintings that "dance". The concentration on the lines, lightness and grace of artistic and athletic movement, have also inspired this series of sculptures and paintings which continue to evolve. Dance is a vital constituent to many cultures, especially to the African Diaspora. The beat of the drum remains in my soul and allows me to celebrate and rejoice dancing through sculpture, masks, and paintings. My art provides a vehicle for me to tell my own stories. My Sculptures My sculptures show a concentration on dancers that give a credible illusion of defying gravity by the excitement of flight and asymmetry. My desire to create dancers that are in flight seems to be the natural progression for my art. Just as photographers learned to freeze dancers and athletes in a split second (stop action), I aim to freeze a sculpture/dancer in mid-flight. This allows me to further explore the movement of bodies (sculpture) through space and time. My Current Works My new work involves two visual elements of my dancers that have been "extracted" and developed individually. One might call these "subsets of the whole"