“In Moore’s new piece, Sky Map, there is the clearly delineated split of sky and land. The land stretches across the surface in striations, barely masking the depth of earth and soil, creating a rolling rhythm of working the land. The sky moves and undulates, darkness mixed with blues, like a storm rumbling so loudly you almost step away from it. A contained movement embedded with anticipation, maybe even a little fear in the lines and gouges filled with ink and covered with wax, suspended in the moment.
It is this yearning for challenge, to speak in the words of color, to convey her breath through layers of thin, thin wax that we come away with not just the feeling of having seen Moore’s work, but of experiencing it fully.”
Taken from Big Sky Journal (Summer 2013), “New Directions: Shawna Moore,” by Michele Corriel.
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