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"Odette" second painting in my "Virtuosas" series.
Before I even knew it was a ballet, I loved the story of Swan Lake. I wore out a cartoon version of the story (An old one, not the musical one most people know about). In the ballet, Odette is the white swan, a captured princess who is everything a classic princess should be: pure, innocent, beautiful, gentle. But the interesting thing is, Odile, the daughter of the villian of the play, is played by the same dancer. Odile is the black swan, seductive and bold, passionate and tricky. This dual nature to the same dancer is fascinating and, whenever I look at this painting, I think of how every woman has a little princess of light and a little sorceress of dark in her. And I think both should be celebrated.
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