A whimsical installation that will encourage you to explore your imagination.
Woodswoman at The New Children’s Museum will encourage visitors to explore the possibilities hidden within our own environment!
Tweet ShareComing soon to the Museum’s lower level, this immersive installation invites visitors of all ages into a whimsical landscape shaped by Woolfalk’s imaginative world-building. Sculptural forms and unexpected details transform the space into a vibrant environment that encourages exploration, curiosity, and play. As visitors move through the installation, they are invited to shift perspective and imagine new possibilities within the world around them.
Who Made This?
- Saya Woolfalk (she/her)
- born
- 1979, Japan
- lives in
- New York
- artist
- www.sayawoolfalk.com
New York–based multidisciplinary artist Saya Woolfalk creates immersive installations, sculpture, video, and performance that use science fiction and fantasy to reimagine identity, culture, and the future. Through long-term narrative projects including “The Empathics” and “ChimaTEK”, Woolfalk has developed an expansive fictional world centered on the Empathics, a visionary race of women who can alter their genetic makeup and fuse with plant life.
Blending influences from fashion, anthropology, technology, and ecology, Woolfalk’s work explores the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity and interconnectedness. Her practice invites viewers into richly layered environments that celebrate imagination as a tool for transformation, empathy, and collective growth.
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