Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: Knights Move

A white scribbled dancer leaps through a flock of tiny chess rooks

This work on paper is by Knights Move, and is ca. 2015. It is paint on paper. Faces and figures recur in his work as a way to express inner conditions of the self, and he has said he hopes viewers first think wow and then what. Set down here, a leaping figure rendered in white and gray splatter sprawls across a tan ground scattered with small black and yellow-ochre rook shapes. The surface has vertical brushed streaks, and a monogram sits low at the right. It is 10 inches wide and 10 high.

Brave choice to dance on a chessboard, and mid-game too.