The Playroom is Ariel’s means of exploring the accessibility or really inaccessibility, of play. Who gets to play and when? Who has the agency, time, or means to? What does play look like for working-class people? What would you do if granted the time to play?
We always ask what people do for work. Ariel has recently been challenging the people around her to ask: What do you do for play?
This piece, along with the others, push to examine Ariel’s departure from corporate America and the monotony and the colorlessness of a world that demands every waking part of our day, of our output, of our creativity in exchange for complicity, brief moments of color, relief, and respite.
We always ask what people do for work. Ariel has recently been challenging the people around her to ask: What do you do for play?
This piece, along with the others, push to examine Ariel’s departure from corporate America and the monotony and the colorlessness of a world that demands every waking part of our day, of our output, of our creativity in exchange for complicity, brief moments of color, relief, and respite.
