Setting forth

“Staggering” (mixed media), by Laura Evans, in her show “The Weight: how to move,’’ at Boston Sculptors Gallery.

Photo by Julia Featheringill

“When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, traveling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.’’

— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

‘Elegies to the once useful’

“Heavy Light” (pewter candlestick, aluminum cannister, plaster wrap, acrylic paint, Sculptamold, joint compound, Aqua-Resin), by Boston artist Laura Evans, at Boston Sculptors Gallery, through May 7.

She says:

“My sculptures hover between mundane, recognizable objects and mysterious abstracted forms that reference the body’s fragility and tenuousness. My recent work combines common household items, found objects and hand-built forms. Some have handles and imply function, but these are elegies to and celebrations of once useful, but discarded objects, subject to the effects of time. Humor and gravity, weight and levity, amusement and confusion, often coexist in my sculptures. I directly manipulate my materials, using simple hand tools, which allows me to create intimate and closely observed surfaces and forms that have life.’’