Obie Weathers III is the artist formerly working under the pseudonym Moyo – Swahili for “heart”.
Obie, who as a teenager was arrested and sentenced to death, has spent the last 23 years in solitary confinement on Texas Death Row.
Using found material and media acquired anyway he can, his work emerges from a dim hole in American culture, arriving with the visions of what it is like to be poor, Black, hopeful and sentenced to death in the 21st century.
The existential, political and spiritual themes of his work are often filtered through the Buddhist and yogic practices which have helped heal and sustain him through years of isolation.
