Yilina’s work is a meditation on impermanence — a quiet witnessing of humanity’s fragile reflections as we reach for what cannot last. Through clay, a material that endures for millennia, she holds the tension between permanence and decay. Each piece becomes a vessel for this paradox: our desire to leave a mark, and the certainty that all things fade.

She holds an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art, following a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Drawing from Vanitas traditions, historical hunting scenes, and fragments of contemporary culture — from nostalgic fashion to digital ephemera — her practice explores how we frame loss, memory, and transformation.

Her forms seduce at first: metallic glazes, synthetic gems, illusionistic surfaces. But beneath the shimmer lies fragility. Skin, feathers, scales, bone — animalistic traces rendered with eerie tactility — suggest not life, but the void it leaves behind. These textures hover between allure and collapse, conjuring both desire and discomfort.

Balancing life and artifice, archaeological ruin and futuristic excess, Yilina shapes absence into presence. Her work offers not just beauty, but a subtle warning — a reminder of what slips away, and what we try to hold onto as it does.