Ghost Within Me
# 1 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 27.6cm
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# 24 | 2022 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.6cm
# 25 | 2022 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.6cm
In this series, Morrison reappropriates pages from gay pornographic magazines that he secretly bought and hid away as a closeted teenager - the only depictions of male intimacy available to him at that time. The models are physically removed from these pages using a white synthetic rubber eraser designed for ink, a process that reflects the erasure of his own sexuality during adolescence; he describes his authentic self at that time as "a ghost within me." Morrison then hand-embroiders over the resulting blank spaces from behind, allowing the thread to "haunt" the absence of the queer body that remained present even when unseen.