Imaging Power & Flux

Jim Morris's work explores how dynamic real-world events can be visualized to capture states of volatility, turbulence, and transformation. 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 - the spread of a virus within a community, the porosity of a disputed border between hostile states. 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.