Michael Moore Spotlight
Michael Moore
Written by Nor Osborne, October 2025
Michael Moore’s brain buzzes with creativity, an overflowing hub of ideas.
“I’m the kind of person that has a million ideas pouring into them at all times,” Michael says.
As he speaks his eyes flit around the room, analyzing and finding inspiration in everything he sees. His eyes pause and narrow in on a scrap of paper on the table in front of him.
“That little piece of paper right there, it's distracting me. I'm thinking of how it would look as a sculpture, how it’s composed, and where the best place to put it would be,” he explains. “I’m always thinking of ways to use my surroundings in my art.”
A true renaissance man, Michael’s art stretches across multiple forms.
He’s a visual artist, specializing in pencil and pen drawings. Michael draws on a large scale, sketching out expansive pictures with intricate detailing. His style is influenced by both graphic art and photo realism.
He’s a musical artist, performing with his experimental music group, The Beautiful Savages. Michael’s music doesn’t stick within the confines of one genre. It’s rock n roll, avant-garde jazz, spoken word, poetry, and noise.
He’s a literary artist, with two published novels, Crumpled Paper and Jazz Trash. Michael’s writing dives into what he knows best, art. His characters are illustrators and musicians, just like Michael. Throughout his books, Michael focuses on the dialogue between a wide variety of characters, envisioning the different ways different people philosophize about art. They discuss real life topics regarding art, based on research Michael conducted.
Stimultaneously, his work explores intricacies and techniques of art that Michael has not yet learned.
“Most of my ideas involve things I don’t have the skills to do and don’t have the time to master. But when I write, I have my characters do those things. I pour all of those ideas into my books.”
Despite the varying mediums and methods these different art forms require, Michael views them as one and the same
“Over the years of doing this, I’ve developed an overlapping, umbrella philosophy of how everything goes together,” he says. “As a result of that, I think of everything the same way. Everything ties together, it's synchronous and connected.”
Michael finds the process of creating in different forms to be identical as well.
“When I’m writing, I’ll write two separate lines, and then realize the different ways they connect to each other. From there I can go back and expand, building and building, like a puzzle.”
“Drawing works the same. When you put lines on a paper, they flow together and change the motion of everything. You create a universal picture rather than an isolated idea.”
