What were you doing when you were trapped in your home during the pandemic? Bay Area-based artist Julia Goodman spent her time slowly creating the wrapped sculpture An Unimaginable Unit of Time, currently on display with some of her other work at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) through Sunday, Nov. 30.
Goodman began the sculpture in March 2020, and according to the museum, it “marks the personal and collective passing of days during the pandemic. Each day, she formed an imprint of her grip in pulp along strips of torn bedsheets, resulting in a continuous line that ultimately stretched 0.95 miles.”
In another work, Waning and Waxing, “Goodman carves moon phases into large textured calendars, recording the 11 months she mourned her father and, years later, the nine and a half months of her pregnancy. Through handmade materials and labor-intensive rituals, Goodman’s work holds space for cycles of love and loss, connecting us to the rhythms of time.”
She gathers her materials from reused textiles such as “cotton bedding and T-shirts from family, friends, and thrift stores.” She then tears and pulps the material to create hand-formed paper sculpture.
SLOMA is located at 1010 Broad St. Learn more at sloma.org/exhibition/julia-goodman. ∆
This article appears in Pets 2025.