Ghost Within Me

# 1   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.2cm x 27.6cm
# 1 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 27.6cm
# 2   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 2 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 3   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20cm x 27.5cm
# 3 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20cm x 27.5cm
# 4   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 4 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.5cm
🔴   # 5   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.1cm x 27.6cm
🔴 # 5 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.1cm x 27.6cm
# 6   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 6 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 7   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 7 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 8   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   12.7cm x 27.5cm
# 8 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 12.7cm x 27.5cm
# 9   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.2cm x 13.7cm
# 9 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 13.7cm
🔴   # 10   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   19.5cm x 27.5cm
🔴 # 10 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 19.5cm x 27.5cm
# 11   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.2cm
# 11 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.2cm
# 12   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20cm x 27.3cm
# 12 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20cm x 27.3cm
🔴  # 13   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20cm x 27.3cm
🔴 # 13 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20cm x 27.3cm
🔴   # 14   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.2cm x 27.3cm
🔴 # 14 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 27.3cm
# 15   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.2cm x 27.3cm
# 15 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 27.3cm
# 16   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.2cm x 27.6cm
# 16 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.2cm x 27.6cm
# 17   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20cm x 27.6cm
# 17 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20cm x 27.6cm
# 18   |   2020   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20cm x 27.6cm
# 18 | 2020 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20cm x 27.6cm
# 19   |   2021   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   13.6cm x 27.5cm
# 19 | 2021 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 13.6cm x 27.5cm
# 20   |   2021   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   19.9cm x 27.5cm
# 20 | 2021 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 19.9cm x 27.5cm
# 21   |   2021   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.5cm
# 21 | 2021 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.3cm x 27.5cm
🔴   # 22   |   2021   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   19.9cm x 27.5cm
🔴 # 22 | 2021 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 19.9cm x 27.5cm
# 23   |   2022   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.5cm x 27.5cm
# 23 | 2022 | Embroidery on erased image from a magazine | 20.5cm x 27.5cm
# 24   |   2022   |   Embroidery on erased image from a magazine   |   20.3cm x 27.6cm
# 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
# 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.​​​​​​​
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