His old Tools, 2015

His old Tools, provides a platform to generate a conversation about the synthetic possibilities of masculine identity and gender-fluidity though the use of stereotypical masculine objects, refashioned (reconceptualised) as trans-feminine objects. The work has been allowed to age – inferring a change of thought and outdated mentality.

As if to ‘return to nature’ His old tools wrestles with the unique socio-political problems facing twenty-first century gender politics, from a homosexual perspective. By focusing on the emancipatory potential of machinery, both biological and ontological alienation, Morris explores notions of selfhood and an examination of the historically fraught relationship between masculinity and rationality - in turn reconstructing a new understanding and perception of the object.

The drudgery of labor and the repetitious cycle of socially comprised beliefs and stereotypes fade to allow meditation, interlacing abstraction and the decay of the institution of masculinity once surmised as reality. Drawing on a slowly fading past we can envisage future realisations of gender justice and political awareness that fosters humanities acceptance and it response to traditionally imposed stereotypical structures.