a study of uncertainty, shame, and becoming
april, 2025
conceived during artist’s residency at the fish factory in eastern iceland, weirdlings of the sea marks a pivotal transformation in her practice—the moment when emotional material began to organize itself through play, coincidence, and the language of the subconscious.
the collection unfolds as a study of shame and uncertainty, exploring how tenderness and discomfort can coexist within one form. drawing from the rhythms of tide and fog, yang approached clay as a site of dialogue between vulnerability and emergence—each piece an experiment in how feeling becomes matter.
through intuitive sculpting and quiet acts of chance, weirdlings of the sea gave shape to her earliest notions of quantum storytelling: an embodied way of observing how inner and outer worlds intersect. within this field, memory behaves like current, carrying fragments of belonging, queerness, and self-trust toward new constellations of meaning.
both intimate and communal, the series became a ritual of play and soft defiance—a testament to the possibility that transformation begins when uncertainty is allowed to speak.
