Youngmi Angela Pak
Flow, 2025
Ramie and silk fabrics, colored thread 24 x 24 x 4 inches
Water flows where there are paths and cracks, and joins with any streams along the way. It can be temporarily held in a vessel and can change its form by evaporating in heat, by freezing in cold. But, eventually it will continue along its path wherever it finds an opening. The Flow cannot be contained.
Youngmi Angela Pak
Embrace and Letting Go, 2022
Ramie Fabric and colored thread 6 x 7 x 3.5 inches
I have always been interested in geometry and mathematics, the way divergent forms interconnect with one another to create something new. I engage with these ideas using traditional materials and hand sewing techniques of the 2D Korean Bojagi in unconventional 3D ways. The humble Jogakbo (patchworked) Bojagi is a flat, square shaped piece of cloth, used to contain, store, and transfer various goods. It is made by piecing together small scraps of leftover fabrics. In this work, the Bojagi pieces bring together two elements: one geometric and stable, and the other organic and full of movement. By allowing all possibilities, pushing away nothing, and with a beginner's mind, I cut shapes from fabric and begin an exploration. Here the cube and the organically shaped part seem to merge together and grow out of one another, simultaneously embracing and letting go.
Youngmi Angela Pak
Life Will Find a Way, 2024
Ramie and Silk Fabrics and colored thread 19” width x 19” length x 14” height
Life Will Find a Way Life manifests in innumerable forms whether blooming, seeding, rooting, growing, stumping, even when seemingly at rest. All around us we see its manifestations. Everywhere, though in different forms and shapes, we see life continuing.
