"Welcome to my website.  I once wrote to a friend that I hope to have a car someday with a sign on the side saying 'Bob Moss, Supplying Your Every Deseret Alphabet Needs Since 1989.' Well Maybe I no longer need that, I have a website.   Before I really begin let me state that I don't own a computer, and don't really want one.  There are several pages on a few sites some friends have created for me, including a MY SPACE page, and my recordings are on the SOUNDCO website, and there is a three-part documentary and some music videos made by Charles Schneider on YOU TUBE.  But, this is The Bob Moss Art website.         "I've always done art and music.  In the 80s I lived in art studios in downtown Salt Lake, although then  I was more serious about music than art.  Art studios were cheap places to live.  I did participate in a few group art exhibits, but mostly I concentrated on music.  While working at Weller's Bookstore I came across a bizarre little book from the mid-1800s that looked like a different language. It turned out to be a phonetic script for English that the local Mormon leaders had introduced and then discarded, the Deseret Alphabet.  In the late 80s moved to Clearfield, and that's when I started making Deseret Alphabet art, at first it was mostly ceramics with Steve Kirkland.  After Steve moved to Oregon I began working on wood panels and leather.  Now-a-days I mostly work on wood, I still play music but I'd have to call my art, my main focus.      "I do a lot of wood burning.  I used to use those cheapo Colwood wood burners found at lots of hobby shops.  They worked pretty well.  Now I use a more professional mail order model, and it works a lot better.  But it's still a time consuming process.  I use very old planks of pine, because the more dried out they are the easier they burn.  Sometimes I have to scrape and sand paint off them, a tough process.  I also use a lot of oak and mahogany from old pallets, after much sanding, because they were only rough-planed.  I'm always experimenting.  Some of my pieces are pure wood burning, sometimes I add collage, sometimes I color them in with a wide variety of materials.      "I pick the subjects off the top of my head.  Because I use the Deseret Alphabet, many well meaning people have told me it would be sure money, to do things like the temples or early Mormon historical personalities. But I don't, and won't.  Some have suggested I join the anti-Mormon camp, I not going to do that either.  Lisa Bradey of the Beehive Tearoom did talk me into doing a Gilgal Garden series. I liked it because it was eccentric, wild , and local, not because it was Mormon.  However, I welcome Mormons and anti-Mormons and anyone else to join me on the Deseret Alphabet Art band wagon." – Bob Moss