PEERY SLOAN
- More Than It Holds (workshop)
More Than It Holds
2026
cardboard boxes, paper, various materials
Elbow Room, Portland, Oregon
A shoebox is already a kind of world: lidded, bounded, just big enough to hold what matters. We wanted to see what happens when you hand one to someone and step back. We brought shoeboxes and a pile of materials. We said: make whatever you want with what's inside the box.
A beaded curtain entry. A monster devouring a sub sandwich. A Ghosts TV drama recap. A haunted house with a beachy roof. A Ricky explosion.
Each box became a self-portrait, a cosmology, a room of one's own. The constraint of the container seemed to offer something, and these artists knew immediately what they wanted to make, and they made it without hesitation or apology.
I know things are going well when the floor disappears under scraps of paper and tape. These artists really didn't need us. They knew what to do and went for it. Sean and I just tried to get out of the way.
facilitated with Katie Savasano
Participants:
- Ricky Bearghost
- Tess Bidelspach
- Maggie Chen
- Brian Moran
- Mohamed Omar