Jes Young

how much of myself is everyone else, 2024

Cotton, silk, calendula, wood

20" x 18" x 1"

Young is a Chinese American queer artist whose quilts are dyed with medicinal plants, drawing on Chinese ancestral rituals, funeral traditions, and Celtic and Chinese herbalism. Fabric stands in for the body; the plant-based dyes carry both visual and energetic meaning — the patchworks functioning as altars, portals, and material grief. jesyoung.com