one year, two artists, over 110 paper sculptures…
Over the past year Lori Goodman and Teddy Milder collaborated on a project, collective grief-in memoriam.
In 2023, we traveled to Germany and Poland, returning just when the Israeli kidnappings and subsequent horrific Gaza war began. We reflected on the mass killings of the holocaust; genocide, war and devastation in Gaza; and atrocities occurring throughout history, including the current threats on democracy. We were simultaneously inspired to make work to mark collective grief. Our collaboration helped us to process our personal and shared grief — a means of witnessing loss and channeling sorrow into material form.
We created over 100 black sculptures of handmade, pigmented and dyed abaca and kozo paper. To leave the work with a gesture toward healing and hope, we created additional sculptures, this time pigmented with a saffron hue—an offering of light.
We hope our installation reflects finding beauty in the struggle to nurture hope, while remembering and honoring the devastation, loss of life, and culture due to senseless violence, atrocity and war.
We hold all who suffered and died in memoriam.