Ray Moore the artist. Born and raised in a small town south of New Orleans Mississippi The Music got back to him and so did the need to break from the world of marketing and pixels. Years of collected written lyrics and drawings found their way on wood and canvas, to become a fast growing body of painted songs. His paintings, dominated by words and lyrics combined with lively and abstract figures are in all their nature interpretable as hip hop music. Leaving out the ‘BlingBling’- side of HipHop, his painted work is ultimately raw. Only to focus on the reality and context of words and composition. Unaffected by an art study career, the nature of his own cultural background appears to the viewer between the lines through his use of color and pattern. By provoking the unstructured, never following an expected line or pleasing shape, he rebels against all known codes from his career as a commercial designer. By doing so, the fast appearing handwriting and shapes are a result of a contending process against internalized cliches. By expressing and dealing with contemporary ideas, politics, modern slang as well as lyrical word play, his raw expression pursues the present. Leaving the viewer with an ritualized performance.