Inspired by Matisse
Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive: the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share. Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the diverse elements at the painter’s command to express his feelings. In a picture every part will be visible and will play its appointed role, whether it be principal or secondary. Everything that is not useful in the picture is, it follows, harmful. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety: any superfluous detail would replace some other essential detail in the mind of the spectator.
— Notes of a Painter, H. Matisse
Here I look to find the form of movement from the inside of my body, from a physical feeling, directed by sensation, aligning through expansion. Internally, surely I feel a lot of superfluous details: excessive contraction, reactivity, expectations. Walking on the edge, the goal is to keep gathering all what is not useful. Sometimes I am rushing, but sometimes it feels perfectly silent, in a way that it simply dances.