The Era of the Tongue and Lung Edith Neff I consider myself an artist

I consider myself an artist and have been that all my life

I'm very conscious of magnetic pull between shapes and colors

I can’t plot and plan…it’s all in my head and it depends upon the color and then I get a big idea of what I’m supposed to do and then I try to do it

our stories are held in the object

The Era of the Tongue and Lung Edith Neff I consider myself an artistTheEra 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