Let’s Keep Dancing is inspired by a Greek panigíri, a village celebration where music, food, and community merge into shared rhythm. These gatherings have always felt sacred to me: spaces where joy and tradition coexist with an awareness of impermanence.
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The painting holds that duality, celebration alongside the quiet ache of time passing. Its title comes from Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? - a song that transforms existential doubt into defiance. Choosing to dance despite life’s uncertainties became the emotional core of the work.
 
Painted during a period of solitude and transition, the figures emerged as a collective portrait of connection: people I love, people I’ve lost, and the spaces between them. The circular movement of the dancers became a metaphor for life’s ongoing cycle of holding on and letting go.
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At its heart, Let’s Keep Dancing is an invitation, to remain open, to move through grief and celebration alike, and to choose presence over paralysis. If there is a message here, it is simple: come dance.
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A deeper reflection on this work can be found here.