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Friday, April 25, 2025
Get 'H.A.P.P.Y' with Liz West's Immersive Installation Made of More Than 700 Colorful Discs
Colossal: Spanning nearly the entire floor of the main space of Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, Liz West’s expansive new installation invites viewers to revel in color and brightness. The artist has reimagined the historic early-19th-century spa promenade room as a vibrant, sensory immersion.
WOW! That is simply beautiful! Not only is the execution beautiful! Will all seven hundred sixty-five disks perfectly held up and balanced, and stacked at perfectly different heights. The math that went into this is so cool! Also, the level of planning for not only building all of these disks but also installing them is crazy. Making sure to lay the lowest ones first, then the next lowest, and so on making sure to never knock over any of the previous ones. I also love its meaning and purpose. I love that it is called HAPPY to try and combat seasonal depression! I hope it was effective for the people who got to see it! I wish I could go and see all of those colors all over the walls, purely filled with sunlight! That sounds wonderful and like something that might help ease seasonal depression. It truly is something that people don’t talk about enough.
This exhibit reminded me of my childhood and the wonder that existed when I was younger. When I was really young I was obsessed with stickers and would not lose an opportunity to put these colorful circle stickers wherever my little hands could reach. This exhibit fills me with the same emotions. You can just stare for hours at the reflections of light on all the different levels and colors of each circle. The only thing I wish I could see this exhibit do is play with light and reflection more specified. Through all the pictures I saw many of them showed a fully lit up room making the reflections of each circle softer and harder to define. Changing the lighting to make it more precise and not necessarily controlled would allow the colors to pop even more than they already are. I also would love the opportunity to learn what H.A.P.P.Y. stands for. The article explains that the exhibit is based on S.A.D. (seasonal depression) but not what the exhibit name stands for.
One of the only things I love more than shapes is colors, and shapes and colors together are better than anything. I think that this is a really cool exhibit, and I really love the inspiration and message behind the piece. Looking at the photos of the exhibit, I think one of the coolest things about it is how much it really looks like a field of flowers, which really showcases how a lot of the piece is focused on creating an environment that is the opposite of seasonal depression. It is really impressive how simplistic yet effective the piece is, which is why I think people can’t stop staring at it. Over seven hundred discs is a lot of discs, and I’m curious about how exact the plan for placing all the discs was. Was there a super specific design for all seven hundred, or was it that once the artist was in the space, she just developed the layout in there?
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WOW! That is simply beautiful! Not only is the execution beautiful! Will all seven hundred sixty-five disks perfectly held up and balanced, and stacked at perfectly different heights. The math that went into this is so cool! Also, the level of planning for not only building all of these disks but also installing them is crazy. Making sure to lay the lowest ones first, then the next lowest, and so on making sure to never knock over any of the previous ones. I also love its meaning and purpose. I love that it is called HAPPY to try and combat seasonal depression! I hope it was effective for the people who got to see it! I wish I could go and see all of those colors all over the walls, purely filled with sunlight! That sounds wonderful and like something that might help ease seasonal depression. It truly is something that people don’t talk about enough.
This exhibit reminded me of my childhood and the wonder that existed when I was younger. When I was really young I was obsessed with stickers and would not lose an opportunity to put these colorful circle stickers wherever my little hands could reach. This exhibit fills me with the same emotions. You can just stare for hours at the reflections of light on all the different levels and colors of each circle. The only thing I wish I could see this exhibit do is play with light and reflection more specified. Through all the pictures I saw many of them showed a fully lit up room making the reflections of each circle softer and harder to define. Changing the lighting to make it more precise and not necessarily controlled would allow the colors to pop even more than they already are. I also would love the opportunity to learn what H.A.P.P.Y. stands for. The article explains that the exhibit is based on S.A.D. (seasonal depression) but not what the exhibit name stands for.
One of the only things I love more than shapes is colors, and shapes and colors together are better than anything. I think that this is a really cool exhibit, and I really love the inspiration and message behind the piece. Looking at the photos of the exhibit, I think one of the coolest things about it is how much it really looks like a field of flowers, which really showcases how a lot of the piece is focused on creating an environment that is the opposite of seasonal depression. It is really impressive how simplistic yet effective the piece is, which is why I think people can’t stop staring at it. Over seven hundred discs is a lot of discs, and I’m curious about how exact the plan for placing all the discs was. Was there a super specific design for all seven hundred, or was it that once the artist was in the space, she just developed the layout in there?
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