Serigraph: Ink on Paper
Crescent Moon
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Artist/Curatorial Statement
This contemporary Coast Salish design depicts the moon with an expression of subtle, simple serenity. It is titled Crescent Moon because I have often wondered wHERE the Coast Salish design element of crescents comes from.
Since I have the teleological perspective that the conCENTric circles and ovals of Coast Salish deSIGN were inspired by rain rippling calm water, as well as dendrochronological tree rings, I could only look to nature for answers. Going by the traditional Coast Salish belief that nature is our teacher, I concluded that the cresCENTs of Coast Salish art were inspired by the cresCENT of the moon. From an etymological perspective, I also had to ask wHERE cresCENTs came from. I concluded that the words conCENTric, ecCENTric, and cresCENT all share a common root having to do with the word “center” (one CENT is round).
So I have concluded that two converging eccenTRICKSTER circles form cresCENTs.
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