We have no reference points. I like those uncomfortable feelings. It makes me happy when I'm not in control. The human face is the most recognizable of sights, so even when her photo portraits are blurred, as if vibrating with interior energy, we guess they are faces. These mysterious apparitions, slightly sinister, slightly vulnerable slide away from certain identification.
Photographs have the potential to create conflict or ambivalence between the real and illusory.
She uses black and white to add a psychological distance. Moran's work in all mediums needs the contexts of both surrealism and conceptualism, and like other contemporary women artists, she has often used the body as her ground of metaphor. She also exhibits an attentiveness to materials and craft. I love craft. Every little detail I pay attention to gives the piece a feeling of preciousness.