Repeating the Truth
Completed
2023
Medium
Abaca paper, thread, wood
Dimensions
1' x 1' x 4'
Cost
SOLD
Description
How can paper, which is typically flat, take up space? Guided by this simple question and the inherent properties of paper, I create installations and sculptures that can be looked at, in, and through all at once. I use craft to illustrate a hopeful return to nature. Just as early humans had an impulse to manipulate materials from their surroundings to create tools, toys, and other objects, children, too, have the instinct to play with nature. In primitive and playful conversations with environment, humanity has found ways to craft simple objects that imply a complex narrative. My goal is to invent timeless objects and structures that gesture simultaneously to a distant past and distant future. Gospel of Three Dimensions brings together ideas of dimensionality and spirituality in order to imagine the aesthetic experience as transcendental. Repeating the Truth asks if there is relationship between transparency and truth. In both of these works, a central ingredient is empty space.
About this Artist
Mika Obayashi
Mika Obayashi is a fiber and installation artist from Michigan. She received her BA from Amherst College and has exhibited her work in the US and Japan. She is a recipient of the Amelia Peabody Award for Sculpture given by the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston (2020), the Mass Cultural Council Recovery Grant (2023), and was a resident at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston, NY (2022). She lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
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