Yawning at the Fray: Ruby Chang-Jet White and Steven Junil Park

Yawning at the Fray is an exhibition by Ruby Chang-Jet White and Steven Junil Park that contends with migration, lineage, grief and healing. Drawing on Chinese postpartum customs and her experience of becoming a mum.

White’s sculptural installation and meal service is an echo and a calling, to motherhood, ancestry, and the implications of creation. What has been inherited? What will be passed on? Through indigo-dyed textiles, reworked heirloom silver, and objects that transmute Korean folk traditions.

Park offers craft and community as modes of reconciliation with family and heritage—alternative legacies that are hopeful for the future.

In this exhibition, both Park and White affirm that healing and comfort are possible through deeply connected craft and food-based practices.