"I sought to create a romantic, lyrical feeling with emotion and energy. I wanted to bring to life two elements of nature as powerful and potentially frightening as these and show that they can be gentle and harmonious at most and a beautiful spectacle at least.

"In the greater scheme of things, this image identifies human relationships and how they play out within the human element. The man represents the wind and the woman repsents the storm. Ultimately, 'Dance of the Wind and the Storm' shows that we are a part of nature and nature, too, is a part of us."

- Thomas Blackshear