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Simon Morris, waving books, #29, Adam Smyth, What I did at 5.35pm every day from 5 January 2025 to 5 January 2026 (information as material: York, 2026) © Valérie Steunou

“The power of the diary is such that, in certain moments, it produces ‘the feeling of touching time’.” - Adam Smyth by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #28, Carolyn Thompson, Winston & Julia: A Love Story, edition of 100, no.13/100 (no publisher listed: London, 2003) © Valérie Steunou
“At the time when it happens,” she had said: “you mean it.”
He had meant it. by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #25, Guillermo Deisler, GRRR ( Naranja Editions, Santiago, Chile, 2019) © Mat Lazenby

Bésame el trasero by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #23, Laurence Aëgerter, Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte, 2011, In collaboration with Ronald van Tienhoven, (Filigranes: Paris, 2011) & Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, Plon, 1955.

“The first of the books reproduces the illustrative photographs from Claude Lévi – Strauss’s legendary memoir, Tristes Tropiques (The Sad Tropics) an account of the anthropologist’s work in the field, permeated with cultural and philosophical musings. The photographs depict the lives of a Brazilian tribe: their homes, dress, social activities, hunting practices and so on. The images are tender, but inevitably the modern eye cannot ignore the omnipresence of the photographer, a white traveller confronting the ‘exotic other’.

It is with the second book that something extraordinary happens. Within a few pages we realise that what Laurence Aëgerter and Ronald van Tienhoven have done, is re-photograph Strauss’s original images in a new setting. This new setting is (as I later learnt) the small Dutch town of Beeterzwaag and in place of naked and scantily clad Brazilians, we see naked and scantily clad Dutch townsfolk. Scene for scene, action for action, Strauss’s photographs are transposed to a different world. And in doing so, Aëgerter and Tienhoven produce a body of work that can be viewed simultaneously as an indictment of the absurdity of the ‘exotic other’ and a joyful celebration of continuity in the human condition.” – Louis Porter,

https://laurenceaegerter.com/artwork/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/doc-Paper-Journal-online-Louis-Porter-2013-Tristes-Tropiques-Illustrations-hors-texte.pdf

[accessed 12:40, 11.10.2026] by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #21, Michael Hampton, Against Decorum (information as material Ltd.: York, 2022), © Valérie Steunou

“Minor exterior scuffing; price-clipped; some shelf wear; tatty; some discolouration; page edges foxed; top inch of the spine has a lightish stain; ex-libris; creased cover corner; scuffing; splits to top and bottom of spine; gift inscription; slightly wrinkled; small stain somewhere; some foxing to prelims; text heavily annotated in pencil; no wear both covers [chipped]; [wear]; [torn] and repaired water; minor cover [rippling]; edges [browned]; [nicks] to water; signs of [use]; slight front cover corner [fraying]; cloth in [tattooed] but intact water; top inch of the spine has a lightish [stain]; very small [mark] seems to be present on the front cover; [signed] by a previous owner; slight [fading] to spine and board edges; [clipped] water; slight shelf [fading]; some edge [scuffing]; covers [browned] along edges; [lacking] water; [discoloured] but intact; [fading] to edges of cover boards; pages [browning]; [chipping] to wraps; [tears] to water; slightly [soiled] water; heavily [annotated] in pencil; [faded]; small [wear]; [aged] but intact; somewhat [aged] water; minor cover [rippling]; [browned]; [nicks] to dustwrapper; some effort made to [repair] the hinge; [fraying] to spine top of coverwrap; stapling [rusted]; [chipped] areas to book cover; top corner mail [bumped].”

- Bits & pieces from Paul Green’s Recent Imported and British Small Press Poetry together with A Number of Secondhand Acquisitions, A Catalogue for May 1999, 1999, and Imported and British Small Press Poetry together with Recent Secondhand Acquisitions, An Interim Catalogue for November 1998, 1998. Paul Green, 83(b) London Road, Peterborough, Cambridge. PE2 9BS by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #15, Jill Gibbon, The Etiquette of the Arms Trade: Undercover Drawings (Beam Editions: Nottingham, 2018) © Simon Morris

This is what John Baldessari would technically call ‘wrong’. I’m down looking after my mother this weekend and there’s no one around to take the photographs of me waving books. As a result, I’ve learnt how to do a self-timer photograph.

The results are awful.

But I kind of like this one with its ridiculously overcompensated wave, but somehow, the book lines up perfectly with the ridge of the roof, and the angle of the washing line which is just so right and so wrong.

Also reminds me of a demonstrative cricket umpire declaring someone out!

That’ll do pig. That’ll do... by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #5, A young man of extraordinary personal beauty, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Words by Oscar Wilde, Art by Gareth Jones, Designed by John Morgan, (London, Four Corners Books, 2007) © Maëlle Steunou-Brown by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books #10, Angela Bulloch, Rule Book (London: Book works, 2000) by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #8, Sol LeWitt, Autobiography (Multiples Inc.: New York City, 1980) © Valérie Steunou by @sdcmorris

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Simon Morris, waving books, #7, Fiona Banner,The Nam. (London: Frith Street Books, 1997, photo © Carolyn Thompson

I’ve started a new art project, entitled waving books. I’m waving one book a day as the mood takes me. I’ve completed a week of waving so far. I feel as if it’s some form of semaphore, an attempt at sending a message using visual signals…

The project is inspired by images of John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner, both waving. by @sdcmorris

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21 days ago

Gifts from the Arms Trade — 20 years in the making!

Book Launch
17 Sept 2026, 6-8pm,
@maydayrooms
EC4Y 1DH

I'll be talking about the book, the arms trade and art with @arms_trade_prof and @sdemorris

Free tickets from Eventbrite,
link in bio

Photography @rickyadam
Graphic design @ashleigh.armitage

Print @narayanapress by @sdcmorris

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Visited Harold Offeh’s exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge today.

Mmm, gotta try a little harder, it could be sweet

Brilliant survey of Harold’s art over twenty years. Really worth visiting. Highly recommended - Harold’s work is funny, inclusive and engaging. His generous collaborative performative practice fulfils the proposition that the true measure of an artist should be based on what they enable others to do. Open until 01st March 2026.

Love the catalogue which is like a gorgeous glossy magazine with Harold lounging on the cover. Seen here with two enthusiastic readers. by @sdcmorris

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