art letter | no. 1. 2021 | january

'flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing' Painting by David Slader

Flow and Beat, Advance and Retreat, Rise and Take a Bow in Disappearing.  That is how Langston Hughes described the pulsating rhythm of James Baldwin’s prose, and it became the goal for my most recent painting, a sprawling five-panel pas de deux.

 

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