The Era of the Tongue and Lung 12 13/16 x 9 7/16 inches unforgettable introduction to printmaking

unforgettable introduction to printmaking

Offset Lithograph Hand-Colored 3"x2 3/8"

It is very possible that

These are images of extreme situations: nature in a violent and destructive manifestation and a city

it is the means by which I render some of what I assume I know with the unknown

The Era of the Tongue and Lung 12 13/16 x 9 7/16 inches unforgettable introduction to printmakingTheEra 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