Back in the aughts, I started to explore light and shadow with monochromatic color in my paintings — black acrylic on plastic with a painted color frame. The first painting was a b-boy for my partner (at the time), then a profile of a female face as a gift for my mother — I was just merely messing around with this medium, until I attended a live show of a band, a singer with a cigar, clad in a zoot suit, and a gorgeous dancer who caught my eye. She was a woman, a mom(?), fierce on the pole, physically strong, and consistently hiding her face with her hair. It all clicked, and she became my mind’s muse, unbeknownst to her (and myself). Thus emerged my creation of: “Shadow Side”.When light hits the painting, the image moves and dances around the frame. And, the image of that dancer, that night, hiding her face, intrigued me. Maybe she was shy, not wanting to be seen, and yet, equally wanting to be seen?I, an introvert, an artist, a dancer, connected with this imagery.Choosing to digitize this painting with meaningful color, and have her break out of the frame, on a continuous loop, fulfills what the ‘shadow side’ means to me. In color: the shadow side of an object is slightly illuminated by light bouncing off the floor making the color of the object often most true in this area.In Psychology, according to Carl Jung, the shadow is not a negative, it is primitive; the 'shadow' is the side of one’s personality which contains all the parts of yourself that you do not want to admit to having, unconsciously, and only through doing the work to become self-aware can one identify their shadow.I ask the observer: “What do you see in this artwork?” Strength? Courage? A Jungian archetype? Or, perhaps the question is: What projection do you NOT want to see? Keep interpreting your own loop. Therein is the freedom.