Poet Jessica Care Moore recently unveiled another side of herself with her visual art installation, NANOC: I Sing the Body Electric: Deconstructing  The Literary Canon.  The exhibit was housed at Dell Pryor Gallery in Moore’s hometown of Detroit.  It included a nine-day series of conversations, conceptual art, and performances.

NANOC was composed of objects, collage, text, political broadsides, and photography. The photography is a collaborative work with fashion photographer Piper Carter. “I wanted to deal with the text of the poets I was forced to deconstruct, in a physical way. There are physical spiritual and mental reactions when men or certain historical ideas are forced on people, and specifically young girls,” says Moore.

Moore says she was inspired by an artist residency last summer working with Master Painter Radcliffe Bailey, at the Atlantic Center for The Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.  “It was the first time in the 30 years of that residency that a Master Painter brought a poet and writer to collaborate with the other visual artists.  Those three weeks inspired me beyond words, and Radcliffe has been pushing me to continue to translate my text into a visual medium ever since.”- Source: Dell Pryor Galleries

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