Carl E. Moore
My work deals with color and identity. My goal is to compare ideologies about
race, stereotypes, and belief systems to everyday colors and the perception
of these colors in our environment.
I consider my work to be a form of visual communication that uses
simplicity and depth to express social and ethical issues. I want to create a
conversation between the personal and public by using color and composition
to express mood, situation, and ideas. By placing people and objects in
common and uncommon situations, I can deal with specific subjects from
various perspectives.
I use media-based events as the primary theme of my work, reducing
situations to their most basic narrative. I use color and content to redefine
the conversation by developing a social connection between the characters
and their environment. The color becomes an important part of that dialogue,
and the content becomes part of the social statement.