de Umbris Idæarum (on the Shadow Cast by our Thoughts)

, 12 paperback books contained in a wall-hung shelf designed by the artist, is a diary recorded over the course of a single year, using the app Evernote. Fragments from the artist’s own interior monologue are entangled with material transcribed from the radio, from overheard conversations and the entire year’s receipts. Alongside her own photographs, Morris has included a vast amount of scanned material, such as flyers, tickets and old newspapers, which litter the text like the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life.

Conceived as an ‘involuntary novel’, the piece can be considered as a counterpart in writing to works from her visual practice that have been described as ‘involuntary drawings’, such as the Jacquard tapestries, her series of Motion Capture Drawings and her Plumb Line Drawings. The diaries are a result of a 5-year ongoing collaboration between artist and designer.

12 × soft back books, each 20.5 × 12.7 cm
Edition of 25 + 2AP