I WATCH THE ILLUSION WITH UNBEARABLE COMPASSION

50 x 60 in

Upcycled Fiber

by Pangea Kali Virga

2022

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Exhibited in Between Here and Elsewhere, Oolite Arts (2025). Also exhibited at Remember the Sky: memory landscapes, real and imagined, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, (2022); and again in Of Small Things, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2023); Exhibited at the Thousand Islands Art Center/Hand Weaving Museum (2023); also exhibited Satellite Art Fair, Miami Beach (2022); and in Ancient Future for Save Art Space, Miami Beach, Miami Art Week, (2022).

This artwork appears illustrated in the book Exoterica, Cantine Press, (2025); and in The Miami Herald, August 14, 2024, front page. Also illustrated in Woven Utopia (Spring 2022); and Modern Luxury (July/August 2022).
 

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I Watch The Illusion With Unbearable Compassion is the first panel of a triptych on the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE.  Tarot, relationships, time as a concept, poetry, the natural world, art history, folk craft, and the practice of art as meditation and medicine inspired this fiber self-portrait of the present moment. The work is constructed with only upcycled materials. The execution of this artwork took more than 1000 hours. A corresponding process book  including exploratory text, source images and materials, theory, and process work was also produced. This heavily embroidered tapestry is a highly personal narrative composed of universal archetypes to create general stories that can be personalized by the viewer. All materials for the piece were sourced from loved ones, peers, past works, and community members with all scraps being incorporated into new works for a zero-waste result.

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