Mariko Kobayashi's Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai Artwork Installed at Residence of US Deputy Chief of Mission

Mariko Kobayashi and Andrea Myers’ collaboratively produced work, Harbingers: Beyond a Silent Spring—previously exhibited on the VIP floor of the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan—will be on view at the Residence of US Deputy Chief of Mission. 

This project focuses on the habitats of endangered bird populations native to the area. Yumeshima is home to around 100 bird populations, including the endangered black-winged stilt and little tern. The artists’ team will utilize donated and repurposed textiles from both of our local communities to transform them into cohesive, large-scale panoramic textile fields. Part of the process was organizing all-ages community fabric workshops and fabric donations for the resulting collaborative textile work. The work will combine abstraction, patterning, color, and figuration and will be installed site specifically within the Osaka Expo site.