This August in Los Angeles, Artistry Edge presents Tapestry of Time, an exhibition that invites audiences to explore a woven field of memory, culture, and imagination. Featuring seven artists from around the world, the show brings together sculpture, painting, stop-motion animation, architectural visions, ceramics, and poetry. Each work reflects how time imprints itself—at once gentle and unyielding—across matter, memory, and spirit.

Yifei Wang – Offering to the Hidden Valley

In Offering to the Hidden Valley, Yifei Wang creates a hybrid visual language that merges Shangri-La landscape photography with thangka-inspired forms, blending ecological reflection with spiritual symbolism. The work is inspired by her recent journey to Shangri-La, where she was moved by the Tibetan people’s devotion to Buddhism and their reverence for life and nature. Gestures of offering, prayer, and protection became a living archive that she reimagines through layers of image and symbol.

At the heart of the piece are five hand gestures—mudras rooted in Buddhist tradition—interwoven with the compassionate hands of Green Tara, the female Buddha. These luminous hands extend across landscapes of ancient roots, textured bark, and fragmented horizons, where flowers bloom and wither in cycles that evoke reincarnation. Time here is both cyclical and transformative, intertwining the sacred and the earthly.

Wang’s work is not only an image but an invitation. It opens a passage into a hidden Eden, a sanctuary shaped by memory, faith, and landscape. By weaving together photography, painting, and sacred iconography, the piece becomes both an offering and a threshold—a reflection of time as devotion, transformation, and return.

Photo Courtesy: Verso Studio

Minmin Liang – When It’s Time to Leave, Take Your Breakfast!, and Weaving

Illustrator and animator Minmin Liang transforms deeply personal experiences into narratives on loss and growth. Her stop-motion animation When It’s Time to Leave memorializes her late granduncle, visualizing mourning as a process stitched through the delicate yet rhythmic timeline of childhood and acceptance. Works like Take Your Breakfast! and Weaving extend these reflections, layering intimate drawings and textures into stories of daily rituals and emotional passage. Liang’s use of puppets and related objects grounds her practice in tactility, emphasizing how time shapes memory through touch, gesture, and storytelling.

Xinyue Geng – Digital Muse and Unsettled Atmospheres

Cornell alumna and award-winning architect-digital artist Xinyue Geng contributes two thoughtful projects. Digital Muse is a generative sculptural series, algorithmically modeled and 3D-printed, inspired by coral reefs and sponge colonies. Here, time appears as a biological rhythm of slow growth and transformation, offering a meditation on nature’s endurance in an age of ecological precarity.

In Unsettled Atmospheres – Reframing Coal, created with Eduardo Cilleruelo Teran and Connor Yocum, Geng turns her attention to the industrial past. Centered on the Cayuga Lake power plant, the work reconstructs coal not as fuel but as a silent witness to human consumption and displacement. Through digital prints and spatial installations, the project reinterprets coal as a symbol of “unfinished time,” where industrial collapse leaves marks yet to heal. Together, Geng’s works articulate time as both morphogenesis and rupture, memory and speculation.

Photo Courtesy: Verso Studio

Junjie Cai – Wind Poem

Ceramic artist Junjie Cai presents Wind Poem, a series where porcelain lines intertwine with poetry. Here, the delicacy and permanence of ceramics embody time’s paradox: fragile in its creation yet enduring for millennia once fired. The works recall ritual vessels of China’s Han Dynasty, imagined as spirit containers holding memory beyond death. By combining crafted forms with written verse, Cai captures the transience of breath and the endurance of remembrance, weaving a duality of temporal fragility and resilience.

Matt Reynolds – Gatekeeper, Riddled, and And Twins

Matt Reynolds’ sculptural practice blends cartoon exaggeration with anatomical and architectural references, yielding playful yet unsettling hybrids. In works such as Gatekeeper and Riddled, constructed from styrofoam and stucco, exaggerated forms mutate into new mythologies. These pieces embody time as mutation and distortion—gestures toward transformation that feel both humorous and menacing. Reynolds’ work resonates with the exhibition’s theme by highlighting how time reshapes bodies, environments, and narratives into strange, layered morphologies.

Sophie G. Stark – Molting Cicada, Bubble Bath, and Cicada Shell

Sophie G. Stark, an interdisciplinary artist merging studio art with anthropology, presents resin sculptures capturing insects mid-metamorphosis. Her cicada-inspired works—Molting Cicada, Bubble Bath, and Cicada Shell—depict shedding, fragility, and rebirth. These pieces frame time as transformation, referencing both biological cycles and psychological processes. By engaging with body horror, scientific specimens, and dream symbolism, Stark reimagines how identity and memory evolve through shedding layers of the past.

Lucy Black – Snake No.1, Snake No.2, and Mama Feline

Lucy Black’s works focus on the archetypal role of motherhood, capturing maternal courage, protectiveness, and even ferocity. In her Snake series and Mama Feline, she highlights the tension between vulnerability and aggression inherent in care. Time, in her vision, is cyclical and instinctual—marking not just biological rhythms but also the primal acts of survival, devotion, and defense. Black’s pieces contribute a visceral dimension to the exhibition’s collective tapestry, emphasizing time’s role in shaping identity within relationships.

Together, the works of these seven artists create a richly textured meditation on temporality. From Geng’s algorithmic ecologies and industrial re-imaginings to Wang’s spiritual landscapes, Liang’s tender memorials, Cai’s poetic ceramics, Reynolds’ playful mutations, Stark’s metamorphic insects, and Black’s primal maternal archetypes, Tapestry of Time offers a journey through the many ways we experience duration.

This exhibition reminds us that time is not singular or linear, but woven—fragile, layered, cyclical, and abundant. Within this tapestry, each visitor is invited to discover their own imprint of existence.