The Era of the Tongue and Lung 2001 color and form

color and form

and it’s been my push to fuse the photographic and the hand-drawn

and bending

There was a moment when an Osprey gently coasted a few feet over my head

the connection between presentationon skin (signs) and the pattern-detail of sign used on the dress

The Era of the Tongue and Lung 2001 color and formTheEra of the Tongueand Lung is inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's1938 essay, Art and Such. Moors use of the text is enhanced by repetition and the multiple layering of colors. installed in a grid or quilt like manner, the pattern, rhythm, and color transform a little known Hurston excerpt into a contemporary image rich in connotation. In her essay, Hurston used the phrase in reference to the era of Frederick Douglass, a period of sound and emotion,of