Dance Landscape 1962

Curator: Looking at this image, I'm struck by its improvisational energy, like a jazz solo translated into visual form. Editor: Yes, it's got this raw, immediate feel. This print, Dance Landscape, is by Cecil Collins and is held in the Tate Collections. Collins was born in 1908 and died in 1989. Curator: The title really grabs me too. It feels more like a feeling than a literal place, a landscape of movement, maybe even emotional movement. Editor: Absolutely. Collins' work often explores the relationship between the inner and outer worlds. He used imagery like this to evoke primal states. Curator: The black and white helps, right? It distills the whole experience into something elemental, essential. It's a dance of pure light and shadow. Editor: I agree; Collins has captured a sense of vital energy, a landscape that is at once both chaotic and harmonious. Curator: It's left me with a longing to dance, or just feel the world move around me. Editor: And it certainly gave me something to think about, regarding my own landscapes of movement.