6 Color, hand-pulled screen print with deckled edges.
Using people close to him as models for his work, Moore aims to represent the many faces of humanity and, in particular, issues that directly addect himself and his community. Complete with rich blue tones set on a solid metallic gold background, this print illustrates a self portrait of Moore positioned next to his 3rd great Uncle Thomas. Intimate and stirring, the edition tells a story about the Black community's deep-seated and continual fight for freedom and equality.
"This work is about the revelation of finding out that my 3rd great uncle (Thomas Moore) fought in the Civil War. It is about the conditions of that time politically and systematically that let to the country's change and how we are today facing a new kind of abrupt change with political and racial turmoil/ Two individuals roughly 200 years apart who [both] faced polemic moments in US history." Mario Moore
