A sequence of photographs helps to complete this image: Two dancers pose in black unitards before Johnson’s moticos panels, their dark silhouettes set off against the colors behind them.
“Photo on other side a fragment of my moticos stage set which was used last Sunday very successfully I thought.” This letter-photograph seems to have functioned like a calling card announcing his theatrical chops.
The ethos of dance — both its fundamental mobility and its built-in community and network of artists — was a catalyst in making the moticos move.
Shearer didn’t return the Taoist collages.
“Have you seen a moticos lately?” he wrote in the concluding lines of “What Is a Moticos?” “They are everywhere.
Persons:
Johnson, Shearer, “, —, Shearer didn’t, ”