The Letdown, 2017

“The Letdown, sharing its title with the exhibition, are two panels of milky-colored recurring wave patterns. The works are named after the physical reflux that occurs during breastfeeding'; the letdown involves the release of oxytocin (the “cuddle hormone”) strengthening the bond between mother and child. The works recall a memory of simultaneously experiencing the letdown while breastfeeding her son, and feeling extreme despair watching Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign concession speech. In this moment the artist recalls a ‘heightened awareness of injustice so profound that it called me to action, altering my sense of place and duty in the world.’

Morrison’s conflation of the letdown and feeling let down; waves of euphoria and waves of pain inform the artists’ understanding of high and low, unmet expectation, false narrative, and the power of imagery and symbolic gesture.”

-Ochi Projects, Los Angeles 2017

The Letdown, 2017
Enamel on gypsum cement
33 1/2 × 87 in (diptych)
(dimensions variable)

Provenance: Colony, The Letdown, Solo exhibition, Ochi Projects Los Angeles, October 28 - December 9, 2017