Moe Snyder
Portland, Oregon

Love’s Diary II 

$300

snydermoe@hotmail.com  

Artist Statement

Some of life’s larger secrets concern whom we love, and why we love them. And why, when it does, love stops. When love is new, it is pure sensation; what is felt in the body and in every raw nerve, not what is seen. We lie, gently, to ourselves. Cold fact does not concern us, when love is new.

But when love ends, that love becomes an artifact. Endlessly, we excavate the sedimentary layers, seeking to reclaim what we’ve lost, or thrown away, or wasted. Again we deceive ourselves, in order to withstand the pain of our loss.

Love’s Diary II seek to explore these opposite ends of love’s spectrum, and the secrets and lies contained there.

Artist Biography

Moe Snyder is a 2007 graduate of Oregon College of Art & Craft, where she majored in Book Arts. She has studied calligraphy for many years, and has taken letterforms and calligraphic marks from prints to broadsides to books and boxes to wall-sized drawings. Originally from the Oregon coast, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.

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