Hoboken Days #22 Diana Moore-sculptor
A blindfolded head, mouth slightly open, my high school intern Joshua Davis wondered out loud if it was inhaling or exhaling. The creator of the piece, Diana Moore, burst into joyous laughter, bowled over by the freshness of the observation about the work in bronze.
Her studio was right below my fourth-floor space at 720 Monroe Street—at that time called Monroe Center for the Arts. Over the years that our time there overlapped I often photographed her smaller works. Occasionally, there was a big one like “Justice” outside Newark, New Jersey’s MLK Federal Courthouse. When Diana was in the process of creating “Lady Justice” in 1998 for the Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire I took on a personal project and had a chance to document some of the process (pictured here). Diana rented a space in an attached building at the northwest end of 720 Monroe’s vast complex, building C I think it was, and luckily for me, it was blessed with beautiful natural light. As usual, when going through my analog archives, I wish I had shot more—but life has a habit of getting in the way, doesn’t it.
To see more of my Hoboken Days project, start with #1 on my Instagram page
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