Playdate is an experimental installation of sculptural work by artists and friends SR Lejeune and Lucas Yasunaga. The artists explore interactions between their work and the environment of a long-unused brick garage at a private home in Williamstown, MA. Through an orchestrated game designed by the artists, Yasunaga’s solar-powered “bugs” move in relation to Lejeune’s manually machined metal works—“perpetual prototypes” made up of springs and joints that expand and contract with respect to a given environment. Sunset and various natural co-habitants (piles of leaves, spiders…) act as participants and parameters for possible moves. As Yasunaga’s sculptural creatures lose their natural light source with nightfall, their solar powered lights glow brighter, illuminating the polished metal of Lejeune’s sprawling sculptures.