Ray Moore is an African American multi-disciplined artist and rapper who has lived in Germany since the 1990s. Besides his main discipline (painting) he is active in many fields of art, as for example design, music production, sculpture and objects, installation, room design as well as poetry and rap. His forms of expression are deeply influenced by his African American roots and his main inspiration is music, especially hip-hop. When he talks about his one way to create he calls it “Serious Play”: By this he means the playful examination of serious themes, such as justice and injustice, fear and hope, joy and pain. In his work he combines associations with text fragments, powerful colors and the rapid pulse of the present.