ART + DESIGN SENIOR EXHIBITION
Moe Lewis
BA New Media
Website: moelewis.com
Instagram: @moe_ink
ARTIST STATEMENT: Moe Lewis is an animator who, ever since he could remember, has been searching for a way to find peace, happiness, and acceptance, both within himself and the world at large. Throughout his life, heβs found both community and the means to express himself through the rich medium of animation.
In this animatic storyboard, he hopes to engage the viewer in a deeper, more mature story through a (not-quite-yet-but-hopefully-one-day) animated medium. He also hopes to tackle ideas of pursuing the self, interpersonal relationships and their repercussions, what it means to be human in a world not dissimilar from our own, and exploring the voices of the nonconforming. This is done in the setting of 1960s America, with a part human, part monster population, focusing on two young people trying to carve out their place in a world that hasnβt come to accept them as they are.