ArtWalkScape: Glad to See Your Bach
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker Deville
This Thursday, be a streetwalker (it’s only a crime if you charge money) at this month’s ArtWalk at gallery spaces around downtown Charleston, including now The Clay Center (for more details, see the ArtWalk website). Above is a shot I took on behalf of a bad pun from an ArtWalk last Fall. We’re looking at the Blue Door Studio of Mark Tobin Moore. Below is a very cool artwork by Moore (that’s him on the right, not on the wall). Senor Moore, please tell us the backstory behind your artwork below.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
That is a photograph of my wife Donna’s Uncle Har in World War II, when he was commissioned as an Ensign in the U. S. Navy, after having served some time in the Merchant Marine in the Pacific area. He was from Quinnimont (now a ghost town) near Beckley. He had left home at about 15 years old in search of a different life. He strikes me as a perfect symbol of a person on a journey navigating his way through the world (thus, the title of the piece, ‘Navigator’). He is still with us on his journey, and lives near Cocoa Beach, Florida.