Mira Dancy Mourning's Orbit

The paintings in Mourning's Orbit are for Mira Dancy a homecoming and a departure. They are oil landscape paintings, based on photographs Dancy has taken in the area around her home in Altadena, California, during the year since the Eaton Fire ravaged and transformed the community on every level. They are clearly different, and made differently, than the acrylic paintings of goddess-like figures that have dominated her paintings for the past 15 years. A dynamic use of line and impassioned commitment to worldly and otherworldly uses of color unifies the bodies of work, however, and suggests that the new paintings are in fact an expansion of and re-articulation of themes that give the previous ones their power.