The Era of the Tongue and LungTheEra 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

romanticized idea of Native American art

but one little place that works

your stories

and assembled the still life that became the basis for his PrintLab work

Upon my return I decided tobuy a house

”of great orators and “Race Champions”

and disappeared into the fog

and nostalgia for Japan

the marks superimpose another surface on top of a white or black ground

On one hand

while making Bronx Project

This print depicts a celebration of Jonkonnu