(short light music) - [Maurice] Here is a crow.

I mean it, maybe it doesn't look like a crow, it's what my interpretation of a crow.

It's actually from a drawing that I did.

I like the drawing and decided to make a sculpture out of it.

(soft guitar music) I love the solitude.

I love the water.

It's always changing.

It almost vibrates with history.

Something's here, it's a very peaceful place.

People have told me that, that lived here before I lived here.

You feel at ease here.

I mean that, the house isn't in very good shape.

I don't have a lot of money.

I'm not gonna fix that up.

I'm just in the perfect spot to be out of town but pretty close to town.

(guitar music) I don't consider myself a folk artist any anymore.

I think I've moved way beyond that and still developing my art.

You know it, it's constantly changing and growing and I really think that's wonderful.

It's really great for my head.

I finally found one of the best things I do.

This is a spirit painting.

This is like a spirit in the creek.

(soft beat music) Kind of the creek that I live on and she's returning to the bay and that's fun to do.

They have all these little dots that I do with my electric pen.

Saved me a lot of work and a lot of time.

She's a spirit, half in the water, half out of it.

I've got insects in it, these little animals.

The tides going out and she's going out with the tide.

(soft music) - We met Moe when we moved to the shore and he was in the gallery and he had this flamingo sculpture that was just too funny for words.

Then I think about six months later he invited us to his house for lunch.

Maybe he just invited me cause he's into girls more than boys and girls.

And I thought, man, we have made it to the shore.

Moe invited us to his house for lunch and he is one of our very best friends.

He was just, a wonderful human being and an incredibly talented artist.

But what he is gonna come up with tomorrow, I don't know he does frogs and fish and birds and naked women and cows and horses and Abraham Lincoln several times a year.

What the hell that's about, I have no idea.

(soft music) - I've lived here for 23 years.

When I was a child, I lived on the eastern shore of Maryland on the seaside, on a farm in a very rural area.

And I lived there until I was five years old.

Our driveway must have been like two miles long and I didn't have any children to play with.

We had the pigs and ducks and my father made baskets at a town called Snow Hill.

The farm was right on the bay and you could see the barrier islands cause it was really far out.

We moved to Philadelphia when I was five and my father went into the family business.

Yeah, and I was thrown in from this country upbringing to center city Philadelphia.

And I was supposed to go out and meet children.

I mean, I was scared to death of children and it took me long time to get, you know to get a accustomed to a dealing with other rape kids.

And I think that affects me yet today.

Maybe that's why I live here.

(soft music) - How delicate and humble and the strength that he is able to find and create and then he can just turn around and make these sculptures that are unbelievable.

The delicateness of how you'd work.

I just, it blows my mind.

- I don't like compliments.

- [Patsy] Basically, I have this altar to Moe (laughs) and his carvings and then the whimsy of the paintings and they're just, they're magical.

That's how I think of his work.

- I find it fascinating that Moe, kind of operates on a spectrum and I would put it in the genius category and what he can bring out of the subtleties of wood or paper with his large hands.

And yet delicate touch is exquisite.

I love it all.

(soft music) - It comes to me in dreams and just it just happens to pop into my mind.

If I try to look at it, it doesn't work usually they call it writer's block.

I don't get writer's block and it'll probably happen to me, but I just have something to do all the time.

Which can be kind of annoying too.

But, I've learned how to deal with that.

And, it's still, if you're not working you're not completely full or happy.

(soft music) Writers and other artists have always come to the shore cause it's cheap to live and it's beautiful.

People don't know about it.

They drive down to Cape Hatteras (birds chirping) and they pass through the shore on Route 13.

And that's not the real shore.

That's just what you see from the highway.

We have the ocean and the barrier islands on one side and we have the Chesapeake Bay on the other side.

(soft music) Sometimes it's lonely.

During this pandemic, it got real quiet out here.

I don't have as many visitors as I used to.

The solitude cannot get to you.

I usually have a dog.

I don't have a dog now or I have a girlfriend ,I don't have a girlfriend now.

But that will change, I hope.

(soft music) - I very much love art.

Many of my friends are artists.

I'm always thinking, what is art?

What makes art different than anything else?

Currently to me it's about ideas and certainly Moe qualifies for that.

His art is about ideas and the question is, okay, what ideas he gonna have today?

What I love is, he makes his living doing art.

Moe gets up every day and paints, sculpts whatever he decides to do.

Little, big and and that's his life.

(soft music) It's remarkable to, to know somebody like that.

Who's so close to you.

Who's the real deal.

- I'm gonna take this down.

In case the wind comes up.

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