Sontag Montag : with essays by Briony Fer, Margaret Iversen and Ed K̆rcma / Susan Morris ; edited by Deirdre O'Dwyer.

London : Five Years, 2009.

126 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm

Catalogue of the exhibition 'Sontag Montag: drawings, recordings and diagrams', at Five Years, London, 26th September - 4th November, 2009.

Morris's repetitive, intense work on the plumb-line drawings has very recently inspired a new series that aims to capture the unconscious time, rhythm and movement of her working process. These new Motion Capture Drawings are made in a studio which has the technical apparatus required to track movement as a graphic trace. Morris wears sensors on her wrists and on the back of her head as she goes about tacking up the plumb-line at the top of a large sheet of paper, snapping the string on the paper to leave the chalk mark and then winding up the string. The beautiful rhythm of the movement is shown in the resulting picture as a complex tangle of white lines on a black ground. --Margaret Iverson