Dancing with the Devil

12” x 24” • Oil on Canvas

On a lantern-lit dock, a barefoot woman in a sweeping black dress dances cheek to cheek with the devil. Amber light pools across the wet boards, and a sliver of moon peers through the clouds. Just beyond the folds of her dress, his red tail curls into view.

There’s a tenderness in the way they hold each other that makes the scene all the more unsettling. For the length of a dance, danger feels close enough to be intimate.