Escaping city life to be by the ocean and woods along the coast of Southern Mendocino County, Blake More is an artist and poet with many creative voices and obsessions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, audio, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars.
She also stands on her head, dances, digs in the dirt, eats homegrown food, grows her own medicine, plays with children and jumps in the river whenever possible. A UCLA graduate and lifetime member of Phi Beta Kappa, she has avoided a “real job” since 1989, and makes her living as a graphic designer, artist in the classrooms, writer, mural painter, performer, costume designer and poet.
Blake’s art is often inspired by nature, geometry and the female form, and she regularly incorporates mixed-media collage and painting into her digital expressions. She also likes to paint big.
Blake's work has been published in Across Latitude & Language by Delhi Poetry Slam, a global anthology of poets celebrating diverse voices from around the world.