Windstill Ballet II – Dancing with the Sun

by Arjen Roos

Some images continue to call for a new chapter. *Windstill Ballet II – Dancing with the Sun* is my contemporary reinterpretation of an earlier work, *Windstill Ballet* (work code 755129).

For the original work, I combined a photograph I had taken of a beautiful, windless lake near Wolvega with a 3D rendering I had created of a ballerina. The result was serene and almost meditative: a dancer, frozen in a moment between water, air and sunlight. Years later, I wanted to return to that composition, but to set it in a completely new world. The ballerina and the recognisable horizon have remained, but the landscape has transformed into a colourful interplay of geometric planes, circles, lines of perspective and abstract forms. Red, deep blue, ochre yellow and soft cream tones create a rhythm in which the ballerina seems to be literally dancing with the light.

The work forms part of my ‘Populated Worlds’ collection, in which human figures find their place in worlds that balance between reality and imagination.

For me, therefore, ‘Windstill Ballet’ and ‘Windstill Ballet II’ are not simply an old and a new version of the same image. They are family. The first revolves around silence and space; this new interpretation centres on colour, movement and energy.

An expressive statement piece for lovers of ballet, modern art, geometric abstraction and colourful wall art.

The original Windstil Ballet is also available from Werk aan de Muur under work code 755129.