This third painting is the last of this series of ‘Dance Me To The End of Love’. Where I go from here I am not sure.
Two of these dresses were given to me. The third one I purchased and wore several times. The most extraordinary one for me was the wedding dress. It had been in an attic for years and the mice had eaten the satin part at the bottom of the dress. Amazingly they did not eat the lace which has to be Italian it is so ornate. What remained was twisted into long tendrils. On this panel I smoothed the areas around the dress and let the dress become more three dimensional. This image I took myself which does not begin to capture the detail. Next week I will take it to my fabulous photographer who does an amazing job lighting my work so the surface details pop.
Wedding dresses can be symbolic of so many things like beginnings, hopes and desires. A dress in this condition can be symbolic of the reverse, the negative, the failures, endings, forgotten hopes and disappointments. 
Like the other two pieces, this is 60 x 30 inches on panel. There is something about working this large that allows one to engage with the piece physically.