Artist Marcia K. Moore for MkM Designs - Private and Corporate Art and Sculptures

Columnist interviews artist Marcia K. Moore and is captivated by what she sees and comes to understand.
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May 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Enjoy this interview conducted by local newspaper columnist.
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There is much to learn from American Indian cultures: respect for nature, honor of ancestors, and a cosmology that unites all living things and promises an afterlife rich in experience.
American Indian mythology — where spirits reside in animals, plants and the elements of earth, air, water and fire — continues to guide many, even today. Theirs is a bio-religion, all-encompassing, without time yet with infinite space.
We experienced this kind of nonlinear universe in the film “Avatar,” where we visited another realm, met otherworldly characters and witnessed a lesson at least as old as the Anasazi. Yet many criticized the film as a 3-D “Dances with Wolves.”
I was reminded of this on a recent visit to the Stuart studio of Marcia K. Moore. Stepping over the threshold of an ordinary home, I entered the most extraordinary alternate reality, centered around an ancient Calusa Indian woman and her young son, Carlos.
I found them in drawings, digital recreations and as sculpture. The woman with an elastic face stood riveted to the earth, wielding a staff of mythic proportion and design. Carlos (the once and future king of the Calusa) rode the back of an alligator surrounded by elongated humanoid creatures as elaborate as any in “Avatar.”
Denizens of another world found beyond a magic portal — a monstrous man with thick limbs chained to a platform and straining to break free, shape shifters whose helmeted heads metamorphose into an owl and boar, and manifestations of primal beings — stood frozen in agitated longing.
Everywhere on the sunset mauve walls were representations of entities bursting forth from gigantic canvases, each taking Moore no more than 30 minutes to complete.
“It just comes from somewhere and I am inspired,” she said. “A story is forming, a narrative and strong characters. What I am trying to do is bring through something that has touched me of these ancient cultures. I’m drawn to create what is conveyed to me. I don’t have a choice.”
What is conveyed is magnificent. John Textor should see this, I thought, after Moore explained that she saw the possibility of an epic animated film.
I saw it, too. (http://marciakmoore.daportfolio.com/)  
An Iowa native who has spent her life surrounded by American Indian culture, Moore, 48, moved to Stuart about eight years ago. She had done the powwow circuit, been adopted into the Yankton Sioux tribe, owned a gallery in Corales, N.M., lived for a time in Miami Lakes and then came north for an architectural rendering gig.
The Everglades became her muse.
“There is so much life there,” she said. “And the intensity of the spirit is unbelievable to me. Yet it goes unnoticed by the world.”
The Everglades led her to the Calusa Indians.
“They built these enormous mounds of shells and clay,” Moore said. “But why did they build them up into the sky?”
Perhaps hoping for a chance at an otherworldly portal?
“The Calusa Indians have taken me through the state and out into the universe,” she said. “I am on a journey.”
While Moore travels metaphysically or otherwise (mkmdesigns.net), patrons remain taken with her work. She has just received a huge commission for the soon-to-open Pinon Grill restaurant in Boca Raton.
In addition to four6-foot-high bronze tree sculptures that will appear light as eagle feathers as they fold over the nightly diners, she will provide large- and small-scale abstract paintings for the walls.
As she continues painting, growing ever nearer to the ancients’ portal, perhaps Textor will call. I, for one, would like to see a film based on teachings from the Earth by a woman who has dedicated her life to its lost beings.
Marilyn Bauer is a columnist for Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. This column reflects her opinion. Follow her blog at tcpalm.com/bauer.


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