Artist’s Statement

For the last year or so I have been contemplating the idea that God’s relationship with His people in Christ is like a dance. That is, He leads and we follow. The idea of dancing with God, as a dance partner follows her leader, is a beautiful one. There are few things as magnificent as a couple perfectly paired dancing as one across the floor. He initiates, she responds with fluidity and immediacy. The dancing couple looks beautiful, together. This is the vision I long to see realized in my own life with God. Perhaps this sculpture will nourish that vision for you, too.

The Dance is not only about God’s dancing with individuals, but it also captures the sense of God’s dancing with a group of His people – The Church. Each single cube represents God’s dance with an individual. The natural wood ingot on one side represents the human partner, and the divinely-painted side represents God. Each cube spins freely on its axis, like an individual couple that dances as one on an invisible axis. Taken together, the entire series of cubes (70 total, in this sculpture), evokes the scene of a dance floor full of gorgeously united couples spinning, striding, and twirling to the same music. This image is the sense of God’s interplay with His Church, the collection of His people who trust in Christ for eternal life. It is a beautiful picture indeed!

This sculpture is designed to be somewhat interactive. Go ahead and gently spin the cubes. As you do so, imagine God twirling you around in His divine dance!