Move Your Shadow
24″ x 32″ x 9″
Painted plastic tubes
1997

Move Your Shadow

The description of this work emphasizes how delightful it really is. ‘Move Your Shadow’ can suggest not only a bundle of bony knees and elbows intermingling at any dance, but much more ……………………

It is clearly significant that these spindly legs do not touch each other as they turn and dance. It is equally significant that they must give way to each other. If the one does not move, the other cannot pass ………. “Live and let Live” – The golden rule of peaceful co-existence.

On another level, the Artist is also issuing a wake-up call to youth, who seem not to know that in order for the shadow to move, the body first must. ‘Move Your Shadow’ is saying, to achieve your desire, get up and work for it!”