What do art and cheerleading have in common? Moon thinks they both come from the core
‘Samson Kambalu Recalls an Interview with Taylor Moon’ is part of a series of articles in which we asked nine artists to chose a colleague whose work has been on their mind.
Taylor Moon,
The Nomad, 2019, video stills. Courtesy: the artist
I had to interview Taylor Moon. I didn’t know where to begin, so I started with what I had in my hands: a Spanish guitar that I had just purchased from a pawn shop on Cowley Road in Oxford. I ran it through the modes while Taylor listened, via Zoom, in Missouri. A former MFA student of mine at the Ruskin School of Art, Taylor is now an assistant professor of graphic design at Missouri Southern State University. She is 22 and from Los Angeles – Korean father, American mother. Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian – that’s a blues scale; Lydian, Mixolydian – I have a sister called Linda; Aeolian – these are Greek City states – Locrian. Taylor says she like