MORLEY: STREET VERSE
My work begins on the streets of Los Angeles. Its alleys, its grit, its sun-bleached walls layered with years of paint, posters, scratches, and stories. Out there, nothing is pristine. Everything is imperfect, rough, and relentlessly honest. That raw texture is what inspires me, and it’s what I try to honor every time I bring a piece from the street onto canvas.
As always, I’m still chasing the chaotic poetry of the city: the way history stacks on itself in uneven layers, the way messages get torn, overwritten, shouted over, and still somehow survive. I want each piece to feel like it’s been lived with. Weathered, scraped, and insisted into being.
Most of all, my work is driven by a need for connection. I want these messages to feel like the desperate, haphazardly scrawled words of someone who needs you to see them… because in many ways, that’s what they are. They’re the thoughts I’ve pasted up in public hoping someone will stop, read, and feel a little less alone. My hope is that these pieces speak not just to the eyes, but to the part of us that’s searching for a voice in the noise.
-Morley
December, 2025.
