This was inspired by the silk dancers suspending themselves from fabric.  Here the “dancers” are burning bright because they are always just a fold of fabric away from falling.  Like fairies, they defy gravity and dance in the vertical world.
 
20" w 13 1/2" h
 
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Nietzsche