Originally, this sculpture was wired and conceived as a classic “tango dip”… The seductive serious dance of love. I tried a new white very moist clay that Unbeknownst was much too heavy for my wiring. The dancer limbs kept dipping and veritably collapsing under the weight no matter how I tried to slip more wire support within the finished internal structure. The visual plane of the dancers became more and more horizontal. It was as if the man and woman were telling me, that they wanted to be in another position!
Then, as it so often happens-I saw the piece as it was to be.
Though originally formed in wire and clay with theatrically uplifted arms and legs-they seemed to have finished the dance of love and moved towards the final knotted blissful surge of intertwined bodies and limbs and then disarrayed stillness.