Linny Morris
Union in partition, 1999
inkjet on vinyl
24 x 72 in.

LINNY MORRIS: Selected Works
November 13, 2007 - February 3, 2008

Originally exhibited in 1999 at The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, this body of work emerged from Linny Morris' interest in the indestructibility and cartoon-like fakeness of plastic flowers. She decided to photograph fake flowers with the same respect and care as the real ones and juxtapose the real with the plastic. A number of questions came to mind when she experimented pairing slides of a real and a plastic flower: Does one have more value than the other - eternal synthetic or perishable organic? What is stranger, more beautiful - a creamy "real" night-blooming cereus or a fuschia and violet "fake" chrysanthemum? Which imperfection is less objectionable - and untrimmed injection mold spur or an insect-chewed petal?

Linny Morris, well-known for her commercial and art photography, was born and raised in Honolulu. She studied at the Universities of Colorado and Hawai'i before graduating in 1978 from Parsons School of Design, New York. Most recently, she co-authored the book The Hawaiian House Now, which takes the reader on a photographic tour of 21 homes throughout the Hawaiian islands.