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Morris Fox (@greyywwave) is a queer goth artist and poet based in Toronto, Canada. His work voices empty peripherals, studies a homesickness for Birth/Death/Afterlife (a moebius uncanny) and considers what is erased in duplication: both as loss & gain. Manifesting as a continuous questioning of where Goth is in globalization, he frames narrative works in the Umwelt of his own subject position.

Morris’ practice experiments with thermal imaging, slow motion video and freeform choreography, centred around themes of cruising, haunting and displacement. Viewed in alignment with traces, fragmentation and fleeting encounter. Heat registers living desire upon a cold field, but also the hot glance of a strange doubling; sight&relay.

He finds himself informed by a telescoping and collapsing series of lenses, history and its interpretations, the collective construction of culture, the individual place in or response to those perspectives, a series of visible signs, marks or traces which like a vaporous mirage disappear as he comes to the site of visitation. The evaporated vestige alludes to and is elusive to the double blind of sight, the alienation of waiting and the pleasure of site-seeing.

“By opening ourselves to the encounter, we are inviting uncertainty, permitting something unforeseen, unexpected to happen: the strange encounter.” – Morris Fox