Season Walker by Yiren Gallagher

Season Walker is a series of stitched scrolls on hardened cheesecloth, with square works framed over paper weavings. The imagery walks through seasons: a white cat from a Ukiyo-e print watches a rice harvest; a banana tree recall Formosa summers, redrawn with Mughal leaves to avoid visual heaviness; a bundle of winter carrots earn quiet reverence. My favorite— a water buffalo strolling home (with the farmer)—remembers my childhood ride on a wooden cart in Taiwan. Now, few buffalo remain in the fields. A black-and-white Haori not funereal, but pared down, hangs layered like a relic of past seasons. I avoid printed patterns, using tassels, reused fabric, and daily inspiration. My work isn't quite craft, painting, or sculpture—but a stitched narrative, unpolished and in-between. I hope viewers enjoy its freedom, its marks, its imperfection—and discover something for themselves.

Yiren Gallagher is a Tulsa artist and retired teacher with an MFA from Pratt. More at yirengallagher.com