Different Feline Breeds

A list of cats I'd like to/ already own.


for STUDIOMMLXIX

The New York Times Giving Section

The New York Times // Giving Section
It ran in black and white but was in color on the website. It was about choosing a charity to donate to and the researchers who help you with that process.
Thanks so much Rodrigo!

Grocery Witch

good ole grocery witch

MAMUANA

Mamu + Ana
small comic to end the summer.

NYT Letters section

Had a piece in the Times about the new healthcare plan and how it may be limiting our choices of doctors. Thanks so much to AD Alexandra Zsigmond!

itty bitty :3

Two Opinions

My illustration for Sarah Lawrence College magazine alongside a short story by Joan Silber. It's about a girl who walks a fine line between respecting her parents' anti-war ideals and understanding her friends' struggles during World War II. She realizes she doesn't have to choose between the two and makes her own viewpoint in her difficult position.


“It’s okay to have two opinions,” her mother warns, “if all you have to do is have an opinion.”

Thanks to my AD Hannah Fichandler!

Soot in the Mountain

Continued from my senior thesis, a collection of southern stories based on folktales from around the world..

Two sisters searched for medicine in the mountain to find a cure for their ailing mother. They decided to split up, but the youngest kept a close watch on her older in case wild things tried any trouble. The oldest was by the creek when she heard a slow, deep voice ask her for her hand in marriage...

read it in full with the other stories here

Demon Child

Based on the Russian folktale Baba Yaga


Having been told since she was very young she’d turn into a demon at thirteen, a young girl grew up thinking she was mischievous and terrible. Her parents were all too happy to send her away to her remote aunt the day before her birthday, an exile they hoped would dissociate themselves with such an ugly situation. When the girl arrived her aunt told her she planned on eating her on her birthday to suck up all her demon juices. She was thrown into the cellar and locked up until then. The girl found an escape from under the house and tried to run through the garden that surrounded the property to get away. But as she stepped through the garden the azaleas bit at her legs and a great thicket grew so high that she was forced to turn back. The girl snuck back by the house and as she tended to her swelling bites a little tabby cat came up from the cellar. The girl gave it some food she’d stolen from home. To her surprise it thanked her and told her how she could escape her aunt...

read it in full with the rest of the stories here

The Devil's Promise

One hot summer day the Devil was seized with the desire to marry, so he took the form of a human and pursued the most suitable young woman in town. She refused his offers...read it in full with the rest of the stories here

This story is based on a Moroccan folktale 7 Brothers and A Sister

The New York Times Book Review

 

First time ever working with The Times and man, those guys are super super nice. Thanks so much Nicholas Blechman!

Sweet Home

On humid nights

I’d sneak to the lakeshore,

And wade on the sandbar

To the acolyte island,

A lightning bug sanctuary.

I’d leave my marks

And hide my treasure

Of silky rocks and snake sheds

And sing laments of never lost loves.

I’d find my faith

While dozing under the sprawling branches

Of the great Live Oak.

And one day the doze

Slipped into a dream.

A wading siren called to me

To wake up quick to defend from

The cicada and salamander spirits

Who came to take my soul.

I was too hot and lazy,

Let them take it, I said.

But she wouldn’t let them have it,

So she took it for herself.

And into the great oak

All my memories flowed,

With all my heart ache,

And all my ambitions.

She said she’d wished I could wander

But that I was now promised

To her and the island.

I would never leave,

I would never try.

And her image broke,

And I woke up to a hot morning.

Inside me grew a knot,

And I never wanted to leave

This place was no longer my cage, I thought

While I sat in my warm resting place.

Based off a Brazilian folktale

Lured and Swallowed

This is the tale of a young fiddler who wandered from his path into the depths of a wild wood. While playing his instrument she stumbled upon a coiled snake that threatened him. Fearing to startle it further, he began to serenade the creature as he retraced his steps backwards. Uncoiling, the snake grew into a beautiful woman... read it in full with the other stories here

Hey! So, finally, here's the first story of my thesis. It's a little book of a few stories inspired by myths and folktales from around the world brought together to fit Southern themes. They're simple, written the way I heard similar stories and songs growing up in North Carolina. 

This particular story is based on the Japanese folktale Urashima Taro

Bells and Whistles

Recently worked with wonderful Art Director SooJin Buzelli for my first forreal-forreal editorial job, the piece just printed so I can finally show it! :)) For the Bells and Whistles section in PLANSPONSOR magazine

^that lil guy's is mah fave

Wildberries and Oak

This is from a project I've been working on since January, my senior thesis, and I'm really excited to finally be able to share it! Soon I'm going to post all five of the short stories with the illustrations- but for now here's the title page and back of my little book. I already unveiled all of the inside illustrations on my website but I'll post them with all the accompanying stories here first! Stories in full coming soon!

Monsoon Wedding

A quick project I did for a Liberal Arts class a few nights ago on the movie Monsoon Wedding. It addresses one of the many troubling topics in the film, the Indian caste system.

LA Times

I was in the LA Times over the weekend in the LA Affairs section!
Here's the full article online. Thanks Wes!

Macro + Micro, Neural Parasites

Heeyyy! Here's my piece for Light Grey Art Lab's Macro + Micro Exhibition in the 'Everything Else' category. That category got pretty freaky guys. The opening reception is this friday so if you guys are in the area you should check it out!
Here's the link to the show and a link to my print in their shop.

Tread Carefully

first thesis piece + first postcard piece + just found out this made it into Best of Ringling, pretty cool.

btw just kidding i'm definitely going to be sharing my thesis up here.. just have to finish it fiiirrstt ayye

temp tats!

Did this a few days ago for Light Grey Art Lab's Beautiful Forever benefit tattoo show!

Check out all the temporary tats here and if you'd like a few for yourself their shop is here!

I went with a classic 'What the heck is in my Garden?' theme. typical.
AB Moore, that campfire is for you.

exercising 101

for n00bs (like me)