The Era of the Tongue and Lung C Bowa Black I have been making prints

I have been making prints about my own family and using images of members of my family

becoming an active agent in representing the essential power that light has in identifying the entirety of our world

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The Era of the Tongue and Lung C Bowa Black I have been making printsTheEra 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