Chronologicallyours: The dance floor at Knossos

(The painting) remains as still juggled back and forth - but I am confident in a kind of doubtful way.

I see it almost as three dimensional chess
A grid work of activities with nooks and crannies that disappear backward also containing activity.

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I realise that it follows on from a painting made in the mid eighties that was stolen from me by an aggressive lawyer in Cardiff, who took it to compensate for money owed to him by a friend of mine.
I was just about to give it to a "good home" belonging to Gill & Piers Morgan in Canton.
It was entitled "big day out" and comprised mainly of people blowing musical instruments from various openings and balconies in a kind of large public building.

(in this painting) there are a few concurrent themes and stories.

There are the onlookers - situated in various vantage points. "The Muppets" springs to mind with the old fogies discussing acts from a balcony.

There are the TWO acrobats - performing in the middle of things, egging things on as it were.

There are the wallflower men, semi dancing under the "arches" in the background.

(to come)

And the two lines of dancers that line up to make contact. This can happen within the whole time frame of lining up to actually making contact.

The "jiving can happen at both ends of the lines and the lining up and partner assessment in the middle on both sides of the acrobats. In fact, to each end it can get more and more anarchistic.

Knossos is a Tapestry.
Over the years I have been collecting both dancers and audience.
Basically from a linear standpoint, albeit with a touch of tone thrown in.

On reflection this canvas has been constructed hanging next to a complex Rajasthani embroidered rug /tapestry.
Without realizing, it has influenced me tremendously.
Its eidetic nature
and mosaic formation of five basic colours with added highlights. Reflecting hot, dry lands in earth colours. Its geometric constructed composition binding it together.
I have decided to use these very same colours in the same kind of intermixed pattern defined only by light and dark tonal areas.