Handmade Paper Cascades Throughout Mika Obayashi’s Meditative Installations

“A central ingredient is empty space,” says Mika Obayashi about her gossamer installations of paper and cord. The artist constructs delicate, yet immersive works that hang from the ceiling in precise squares or triangles, their strings hovering just above the floor. Precise and organic, the installations question the relationship between material and space and “can be looked at, in, and through all at once.”

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