Dancing with an Angel 

Michael Parkes created this intriguing artwork, "Dancing with an Angel" using, what seems to be oil on canvas. The painting's subdued palette and smooth surfaces create a dreamlike vision. At the center of this fantastical composition, a nude winged angel embraces a man dressed in a suit. Behind them, the moon looms large, providing a stark, bright backdrop that throws the figures into sharp relief, emphasizing their forms and creating a sense of otherworldly isolation. The dynamic contrast between the man's rigid formal wear and the angel’s nakedness, suggests a disruption of conventional realities. The angel is in flight, lifting the man, and perhaps defying gravity’s constraints. This imagery might represent the transcendence of earthly limitations, achieved through the union of the physical and the ethereal. Parkes uses the symbology of the angel as a sign for freedom and transcendence in the human search for meaning.