Ascending Chain No.2
2018
Digital Print on paper
39"x39"
This piece was part of a series called Nine Patch, which was first shown in a solo exhibition at Hillyer in Washington, DC. Exhibition statement is below. Click here to see more images from the exhibition.
Nine Patch is a widening exploration into societal notions of beauty, femininity, sexuality, and the body as landscape. In this exhibition, Morrow juxtaposes self-portraiture and traditional quilt patterns in photographic manifestations. This process compiles thousands of "selfies" taken by the artist, which are digitally assembled into traditional and non-traditional quilting patterns. Constructing and deconstructing these images until they become highly stylized abstractions, the final compositions simultaneously conceal and reveal her own body.
The act of crocheting/quilt-making was once a family legacy but has largely dissipated from living memory with the generations past. Morrow (a non-quilter) is reexamining this piece of family history through video, photography and sculptures that utilize found and donated textiles. These personal, collected materials indicate comfort, intimacy, and traditionally domestic spaces, but aim to reach ideas surrounding solitude; or more precisely acts of solitude, such as the labor of quilting/crocheting.
2018
Digital Print on paper
39"x39"
This piece was part of a series called Nine Patch, which was first shown in a solo exhibition at Hillyer in Washington, DC. Exhibition statement is below. Click here to see more images from the exhibition.
Nine Patch is a widening exploration into societal notions of beauty, femininity, sexuality, and the body as landscape. In this exhibition, Morrow juxtaposes self-portraiture and traditional quilt patterns in photographic manifestations. This process compiles thousands of "selfies" taken by the artist, which are digitally assembled into traditional and non-traditional quilting patterns. Constructing and deconstructing these images until they become highly stylized abstractions, the final compositions simultaneously conceal and reveal her own body.
The act of crocheting/quilt-making was once a family legacy but has largely dissipated from living memory with the generations past. Morrow (a non-quilter) is reexamining this piece of family history through video, photography and sculptures that utilize found and donated textiles. These personal, collected materials indicate comfort, intimacy, and traditionally domestic spaces, but aim to reach ideas surrounding solitude; or more precisely acts of solitude, such as the labor of quilting/crocheting.
