The Era of the Tongue and Lung Edith Neff Miranda pulls from the island's

Miranda pulls from the island's literature

grey matter

In my previous years I’ve developed work that changes its forms and condition turning time into its medium

our stories are held in the object

Mary Lovelace O’Neal worked primarily as a painter until 1984

The Era of the Tongue and Lung Edith Neff Miranda pulls from the island'sTheEra 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