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The medium of dance is important in Skuodas’s work. Here, the small male and female figures in the background gracefully connect, their shadows thrown in a color and shape that evokes arteries, while a female figure and a billowing silky cloth reminiscent of a scallop shell anchor the paintings’ corners. In commenting on the importance in her work of the force of the laws of nature on human beings, Skuodas wrote, “Even in my earlier work, which was more figuratively representative, the figures were encased within geometric constructs; not as purely mathematical or decorative effect but as embracingly and evocatively symbolic.”