Dreams, memories and storytelling inform Dominique Moody's mixed-media constructions. Describing herself as a visual "griot" (pronounced gree-oh), the name given to wise and knowledgeable storytellers entrusted with the task of documenting tribal histories and genealogies, Moody incorporates an eclectic array of found objects in her mythical, surrealist-inspired works, which take the form of dioramas, figurative tableaux and collages. Providing additional charge to her works is the fact that Moody's eyesight has been deteriorating for a number of years. Rather than allow this to end her artistic endeavors, Moody has instead moved forward, reinventing herself as an artist while reasserting that artistic "vision" lies as much, if not more, with inner, intuitive forms of sight as it does with the physical ability to see. She has studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.