DEGAS’ BOW

Degas pauses in a gesture of poignant beauty: the moment when a dancer ties her ribbons. There’s no affectation or pose. Just the habit of concentration repeated so many times. The sustained self-denial of effort. That simple bow will express the whole truth of the movement: tension and fragility, strength and sweetness. In this version, two bows with golden sparkles evoke this intimate moment. A gold-plated trim supports and gives them life, evoking the same lightness of the ribbons in the painter’s studio. They shine to the beat of the body. As if the light were bringing them to life, in a silent dance in which the artist finds the miraculous poetry of everyday life.