John Moore: My studio at Yale didn’t have a window, and I got tired of painting still lifes, so I started going into the hallway and sketching the window view there or from different locations around New Haven. Then, back in the studio, I’d combine them in a way that is intended to make them appear seamless. Everything in them is real, however, or could be real. That’s the only rule: it could be real. What poet Wallace Stevens calls “the incessant conjunction between things as they are, and things imagined.”
Article by Suzette McAvoy