The Moody Building
The Moody Building
Sakura Micron .35mm micro pigment felt tip, black, on newsprint.
Shows the kind of more of the present than the past, the present of nineteen ninety-seven. The present in the mid fore-ground, a central parking place called the "bull pen", surrounded by a sort of round about ring road. In the distance part of Mount Ascutney can be seen, the place I felt I envisioned when I did the work which I now call "Premonition of I-91", click to see it.
Behind the bull pen, which in days gone past was a large area for wagons, is what's left of the Moody Building. Apparently, somewhere along the line, some town officials took the top of the building off. But in her day in the nineteenth century, she was a grand hotel, even by European standards of the day. Now, it's an office complex. Shops appear and then disappear at her base as the town goes through the days of the decline of Main Street, U.S.A. along with the U.S. family, once called the backbone of America.
The man behind the building, Moody, was a prosperous shoe manufacturer, and inventor. He had a factory in Claremont, as well as a sprawling estate and a stable full of horses. Later on in the twentieth century, the factory moved south where the labor was cheaper, and from there who knows. That's all I fond out about that.
Reproduction of the Moody Building drawing glazed into this decorative plate.
I did all the stages myself except shoot the silkscreen. Tom at First Impressions (800-639-1851) did that for me.
But I did the printing with special china paint ink and made the decalcomania, applied it and then had it fired.
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