Simon Evans™ is the artistic collaboration between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. They create dense, text-based collages saturated with short, poetic phrases, drawings, and images often created from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside of the studio. These works reflect their long-standing interests in concrete poetry, surface treatment, personal branding, and memory and historical narrative, both individual and collective. The stream-of-consciousness, elliptical prose layered throughout their work creates surprising—and occasionally startling—juxtapositions that produce moments of lyrical profundity and accidental poetry. In Feeling Great, they pare back their characteristic density of language to create a work of delicate beauty that celebrates the process of making and the more traditional techniques and materials they have begun to embrace. Swaths of Japanese watercolor are overlaid with collaged elements and embedded with silver powder dust. This gilding of the surface serves to capture a fleeting moment and monumentalize it. For Evans and Lannan, who often employ gold and silver leaf in their compositions, its use implies a consideration of both the material’s elemental qualities and its historical use in art and architecture.