The Era of the Tongue and LungTheEra 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

Coupled with the color palette of browns

you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors

hinting about the artist's thoughts on identity and how he sees himself

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They're not human

although this is not always apparent for a long time

distinguishes the black figures in motion

Tanaka grew up Japanese American in an otherwise white Chicago suburb

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we have added the specific edition number for clarity

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allowing them to surface and meet head on in an everchanging conflict between the emotional and the cerebral