I Dance, Though I Know Not the Reason

Artwork 22 full view

(1991. 79.5x98)

Why do I dance? For no reason at all, simply because music flows and my heart responds instinctively. This painting visualizes joy without reason, an emotion that cannot be explained, yet an inner energy that clearly exists.

The colors are vivid, and the lines are free. The way those lines and colors collide, embrace, and sway is like a being existing wholeheartedly on a stage. That dance has no goal, no calculation. There is only fidelity to the present moment.

Sometimes we miss the genuine movement and vitality in life because we are too busy searching for reasons. This painting whispers to us to simply dance, without those intellectual questions. It urges us to live for 'this very moment,' not 'why?' If we do so, we realize it ourselves: Though we may not know the reason, dancing is the truth.