PLAY is the fruit of a multi-year collaboration that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hand-dyeing the excelsior took months, and the process of affixing the loose masses began in the fall of 2023, with the artists moving slowly through the space on lifts and ladders. On hiatus from their individual studio practices, with no pressure imposed by external templates or timelines, Evans and Goodman were free to let the work take shape organically. The tendencies inherent in excelsior informed their approach. Composition evolved from circumstance, each collaborator intermingling hues as impulse prompted, PLAY - an installation by Lori Goodman and Becky Evans’ Article by Gabrielle Gopinath in Sculpture Magazine. Also see article by L.L. Kessner in North Coast Journal.
L.L. Kessner is an Arcata-based artist and writer.