It's a Stick-Up

MORLEY

AT FIRST BLACK AND WHITE WORDS ON A PAGE SEEMED TOO SIMPLE TO BE OF ANY REAL VALUE TO ANYONE. WHAT I HAD FORGOTTEN WAS THAT FROM A CAR DRIVING 30 MILES AN HOUR DOWN A CITY STREET, IT’S DIFFICULT TO RETAIN MUCH ELSE.

In some respects, the artistic path of Morley has been dictated by his physical moves from his native Iowa to Los Angeles, via New York. The first stop in the Big Apple was a most defining moment for him, a proper culture shock. Surrounded by a sea of anonymous and seemingly isolated strangers, Morley felt the urgency of communicating a sort of message of hope. ‘I started silkscreening what I would later identify as slogans onto contact paper and sticking them around subway stations,’ he recalls. When he moved to Los Angeles ...