Samba Dancers

It all started from a simple moment: "How would you draw her?" — an innocent photo of a friend's daughter, in a ballerina costume, opened the door to a larger, more playful world. Because, although the inspiration came from the grace of childhood, my vision went in another direction, that of exuberant dance, tropical rhythm and the magic of costumes.

This is how "Samba Dancers" was born, an explosion of color, feathers, movement and emotion. Some say that their style is familiar, that they find echoes of the great modernists, maybe there is something in the broken lines or in the intense chromatics, maybe in the broken silhouettes or distorted planes. Maybe because, instinctively, the costumes became carnival armor, as if from a chaotic and bright dream.

But beyond the influences, Samba Dancers is my way of saying that dance is not painted linearly. It is painted in leaps, in forms that fall apart and reconstruct themselves, in gestures suspended in the air, like a shining memory.

And yes, it's part of the Fractured series.