Jim Morris: Leaving Traces
TurnPark Gate House Gallery
May 17th - August 4th
Jim Morris's work explores how dynamic real-world events can be visualized to capture
states of transformation, volatility, and turbulence. He focuses on themes of power and
flux as he searches print and online sources for examples of the myriad ways in which
information is visualized to communicate the dynamism of events - such as the dynamic
systems of cities, border spaces and natural processes such as cellular growth and
decay. Archaic and modern charts, maps, diagrams, architectural plans, photographs
from satellites, surveillance feeds, and medical records all give visual form to ideas and
data. These visualizations provide a bridge for understanding select aspects of our
world, which are often imperceptible to us, due to the scale or duration of the event
being examined. Morris's drawings manipulate the images we already know by
reorganizing and re-presenting the visual information to draw out and amplify qualities
that he sees concealed within the graphics and the cognitive assumptions he is
interrogating.