Morrison title each of his paintings based on the total of lotus embossed stamps on each piece, and includes the exact number as part of his artist’s signature.
His lotus works may easily consist of a minimum of 10,000 lotus stalk impressions, and more. incorporating these elements of counting into the lotus art. The result looks a bit like the bespoke marks of an haute couturier’s pattern, which again is fitting as Morrison began my career designing and sewing clothes in Australia and selling them at local markets.
Here is a time line of his lotus art.
2016
unknown buyer
1 August, 2017
first signing
580
The first work that I had made, signed and numbered. Prior to this I was counting the impression, but I was not signing the counts.
unknown buyer.
October, 2017
exhibition
AMANSARA – Morrisons first exhibition
Morrison’s exhibition at Amansara Seam Reap was in the former residence of HRH King Norodom Sihanouk. It consisted of a total of 63,213 lotus marks.
In the library hangs a triptych of three vertical paintings. Each portrays two vertical lines of varying depths of darkness graduating from the base to the top, thus reflecting how a lotus flower grows. Each stamp is unique, as the paper absorbs and tones of each lotus marking. Fittingly, with each line complementing the next, the painting emerges like a lotus flowers from which it was made.
A fourth piece, hanging separately, reflects the Sangkae river flowing past my home in Battambang. It is my impression of its waters flowing into the Tonlé Sap. What also inspires me are the classic Khmer songs written about the river.
13 April 2019
lotus count
400,000 lotus impressions
Three river delta #5 with 5228
sold
May – June 2019
exhibition
Serindia Gallery Bangkok
148913 lotus impressions
11 November 2019
lotus count
450,000 lotus impressions
Three Trees
31 December, 2019
lotus count
reached a total of half a million lotus impressions, 500,000
A single painting entitled Decade with 5724 lotus impressions
sold
February - April 2020
exhibition
Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra
132,383 impressions
October, 2020
award
Winner
First, International artist award.
Art For Life, Chicago
26 January, 2021
lotus count
555,555
I made a single painting of 5 lotus impressions
March, 2021
Left Cambodia and moved back to Australia
Total count, 578,217
December, 2021
exhibition
Paris
Galerie Lee
1 December, 2022
lotus count
600,000
I made a cube, of 249 lotus impressions
16 August, 2023
After three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia I reached a total accumulative count of 650,202 lotus impressions.
My goal of 5,000,005 lotus impression update. ETA 119 year’s
17 September 2023
lotus count
650,203
650,204
650,205
650,206
with a large lotus ink stone, four works made at Shoulder To Shoulder, Pinnaroo SA
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