Dancers (Procession with Horse)

This work stages a procession that feels at once celebratory and unsettled: figures orbit a compact animal like guardians of a fragile promise, their gestures suspended between care, labor, and quiet apprehension. A nocturnal field of dense blues and star-like flecks presses in around a luminous corridor of reds and patterned textiles, turning the space into a threshold where memory and ritual meet. The mosaic-like surfaces—speckled, encrusted, and insistently decorative—flatten bodies into emblematic forms, suggesting that identity here is carried less by portraiture than by ornament, costume, and collective motion. In that tension between festive color and shadowed ground, the painting reads as a parable of passage—community holding itself together while moving through uncertainty.