Christmas Eve (Douen's Dance), Chris Ofili,2007.

​Ofili, the British artist now living in Trinidad, won the Tate’s prestigious Turner Prize in 1998 and was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2017. Douen’s Dance, this oil, shows a couple dancing under the spell of a starlit Christmas Eve, Trinidad night. Perhaps they are also visited by a douen, a mischievous spirit child of Trinidad lore. Because it died before it was baptized, it cannot enter the spirit world and so appears with backwards feet. Does the woman’s reversed foot and the lone footprint suggest its magic here? The swooning, expressive curves and the clash of complementary colors blue and orange add even more energy to the scene.