Transformance Canvas Print

This painting illustrates the kind of writhing dance it can feel like when the energy begins to rise. The reclining figure at the bottom of the painting is the Shadow. The Shadow does not participate in the Dance, but is content to remain where it is.

The profile picture you see is how we did selfies the old fashioned way...self-portraits! This self-portrait was done in 1980. I was thirty. I had been painting for a couple of years by then. You see me looking at myself in the mirror. I am wearing a pretty dress and earrings. My hair is loose. This was not how I usually looked when I came to the easel. But this self-portrait was different. In this one I am holding out my palette, showing my colors. What I am really doing is saying to God, "Okay, what do you want me to paint now?" (And God, or my guides, and certainly the angels, did tell me, over the years...) Nancy Wait is an American artist and writer who began her journey into art in the late 1970s after an earlier career as an...