Michael Moore

I have been thinking of these drawings as Quartets comprised of Paper, Brush, Ink, and Hand. During the past few years, I have drawn with Pen and Ink, Stick and Ink, and, now, Brush and Ink. The pen drawings seem most traditional to me, creating appearances of places, spaces, and things to be identified and accepted. The stick drawings seem more raw, immediate, and challenging, suggesting stories or parables to be identified and interpreted. These brush drawings seem almost innocent as they reveal the simple pleasures of touching. They are linear references to having touched, held, felt, pinched, poked, squeezed, folded, rubbed, pulled, pushed, peeled, and picked, including the many other kinds of touching that we can do.