Not Just Another Brick in the Wall
This project, which is 25 feet by 40 feet by 2 feet, “had to be structurally sound, connect to a wall behind it, and echo the silo design,” Morgan says. The back and front were built concurrently. “From about 16 feet up I built against the wooden structure. Up to there, it’s concrete wall behind it. So the whole thing floats.” The title of this piece occurred to Morgan while he was altering the bricks in the studio. “I was hitting the bricks and causing instant, random fossils of movement,” he says. “Later I erased parts to make each brick a coherent sculpture. I thought as I did this, memory has a similar function, life happens all the time, later we select parts of it, erasing others to make coherent sense of our lives.”