My sculptures at the Martin Batchelor Gallery were inspired by Leonard Cohen’s poem and song “Dance Me to the End of Love”. The movements and rhythms of dance have a vibrancy and poignancy that is spellbinding; they gather us and connect us like no other thing I know, except love itself.
My organic cuttings of white Plexiglas are bent into dynamic abstract human forms that contain the energy of cresting waves and the flow of gentle summer breezes. They are expressions of the deepest and purest forms of love.
DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE
Dance me to your beauty
With a burning violin
Dance me through the panic
till I’m safely gathered in
Lift me like an olive branch
And be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love.
Let me see your beauty
When the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving
Like they do in Babylon
Show me what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now
Dance me on and on
Dance me tenderly and
dance me very long
We’re both of us beneath our love
we’re both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children
who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains
that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now
though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty
Last stanza is actually different from the first........touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove...dance me to the end of love.
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