during this time, moore was also working on a series of photographs of grain elevators in buffalo, new york with the assistance of a nysca individual grant. in buffalo, moore met a group of artists working with appropriated imagery, which inspired him to begin using mechanical and chemical processes to incorporate multiple negatives, paintings, drawings, and xeroxes into complex montage images outside of strict documentary practice. this method of recombination, in the era before photoshop, created images of “convulsive beauty” and were the subject of moore’s first solo exhibition in new york at lieberman and saul gallery in 1986, following his first solo show at real art ways in hartford, ct in 1985.