L. Scooter Morris doesn’t just make art you look at—she makes art you feel. A self-described sensory illusionist, Morris builds her work around the tension between what we experience in a moment and what lies beneath that moment. Her “Sculpted Paintings” don’t sit flat on the wall. They breathe. Built from mixed media and layers of texture, they pull light in and throw it back out, giving the viewer not only something to see but something to walk around and absorb. She’s not aiming for decoration. She’s aiming for connection.
Morris uses her art to open space—for questions, for conversation, for difficult truths. In a time when society is pushing against its own reflection, she asks us to look harder. Her work doesn’t preach, but it doesn’t flinch either. It’s about facing what’s right in front of us, what we’re made of, and what kind of world we want to live in.
We Are The People (2025)
Acrylic and Mixed Media, 60” x 48”
This piece sits right at the center of Morris’s current direction. In it, she works directly with the U.S. founding documents—not just as symbols, but as material. The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence appear not as static relics but as living, textured layers in the surface of the work.
Morris isn’t trying to glorify these documents. She’s using them to show how ideas, even good ones, can get worn down or forgotten. The words are torn, folded, painted over, layered in acrylic and medium like sediment. Some parts shine through; others are buried. It’s not neat. That’s the point.
At this moment in American life, the question Morris is asking is simple and sharp: Who are “We the People” now? Her answer isn’t a lecture. It’s a challenge. This painting doesn’t predict the future—it reflects the stakes.