Thus With A Kiss I Die

Kadell Moore

A serene, close-up portrait of two women lying intertwined on a warm brown surface. The woman on the right has dark curly hair, bold green eyeshadow, a nose piercing, and wears an olive green top with a brown corset-style accessory. The woman on the left has straight dark hair, wears a ruffled cream-colored top, and gold bangles. Dramatic, warm directional light highlights their faces and skin, creating strong contrasts and emphasizing their embrace.

Thus With A Kiss I Die reimagines Romeo and Juliet across three images, compressing the arc of the story from first meeting to the confession of love to death. The casting of two women updates the story’s central romance, while Victorian costuming adds a further temporal displacement from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan setting. Together these choices frame the work as a modern interpretation of a classical tragedy — familiar enough to be legible, reframed enough to feel new.

    About The Artist

    A graphic with the word 'Inhale' in opaque white text at the top, centered, above the word 'Exhale' in semi-transparent, fading white text. The background is a grainy gradient, transitioning from a dark slate blue at the top to a light sky blue and then white at the bottom.

    Kadell Moore

    Kadell Moore is a Canadian photographer whose work draws inspiration from historical contexts and art practices, exploring themes of solitude, togetherness, and public imagery. Working across photographic prints, cyanotypes, and silver gelatine processes, his work has been featured in Tattle Tale Edition I, a publication by Desmina de Vil, and at the Toronto Metropolitan University Image Factory for his series Imperfections.

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