The title of this series comes from a phrase the artist overheard a teenager use to describe a gay couple: “there is never more than a fag paper between them.” The remark resonated with Morrison as his own adolescence was defined by an absence of positive queer representation due to growing up in the UK at a time when homosexuality was legally silenced under Section 28. The only images of intimacy between men he could find were within the pages of gay pornographic magazines, which he secretly bought and hid away. Morrison references images of couples from this personal printed material, translating them onto the fragile surface of fag

(cigarette) papers. The choice of material plays on the dual meaning of the word “fag” in the UK, as both a cigarette and a homophobic slur, while also emphasising fragility, concealment, and proximity.