Every 1 2024

NBO Members Exhibition

Youngmi Angela Pak

Every 1 2024 / May 7, 2024

Heaven and Earth

Our lives are woven through with continuity, succession, connection and distortion. When we enjoy our lives, we want them to continue forever. When we suffer, it is agonizing for us to continue. The pillar is made out of cocoon silk that might have hatched into a swarm of winged creatures. The mobius strip made of wood fiber tapes folding onto itself in an endless loop. Heaven and Earth are both eternal and continuous but at the same time are discontinued, arrested, and must start anew.
Techniques: Mobius Plating Basket Weaving and Knotless Netting
Materials: Paper tape, Silk kibiso skein, waxed linen thread

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H: 35" | W: 23" | D: 14"

Photo by Sibila Savage

Youngmi Angela Pak

Berkeley, CA

I was born in Korea, grew up in Boston and currently lives in Berkeley, CA. Working with traditional Korean and non-traditional fiber and fabrics, she draws on a background in quilting, basketry, Bojagi, and book arts to create fiber sculptures. An organic and intuitive geometry provides the structure for much of my work. Fascinated by beauty in everyday objects, human interactions, architecture, natural landscapes, a sense of awe, and rhythms of seasons and cycles, she attempts to express wonders of living, dying, or just being.