The Art and Culture Center on the 3rd floor of the NPUST Library and Exhibition Hall is hosting Li-Ming Yin’s creative exhibition, “Everything is Numbered, Nothing is Form”, from February 17 to April 30 this year (2025). The exhibition presents the artist’ diverse creative concepts and embroidery techniques, as well as her observations and insights pertaining to nature and culture. Yin originally became famous for her patchwork art, but later turned to embroidery while studying the NPUST Graduate Institute of Fashion Design and Management. Following graduation, Yin pursued embroidery as the main focus of her teaching and artistic creations, continuing to study the art form and develop various embroidery techniques. Her works were selected for the Taichung City Museum of Fiber Art’s 2020 and 2021 creation competitions and she currently is an educator at Yu-Tian Elementary School in Ligang, Pingtung, where she is continuously inspiring young students to explore the infinite possibilities of art.
This exhibition is divided into three series, with a total of 17 works on display. The works incorporate a number of techniques, such as three-dimensional embroidery, ribbon embroidery, bead embroidery, metal embroidery, and French hook embroidery. The patterns express ideas of wandering and frolicking and order and chaos, and the needle work expresses the ebbs and flows and expansion of ideas. Meanwhile, through color composition and hand-dyeing techniques, smooth and simple lines bring together the central creative concepts and convey ideas of transformation with expectations for new life. Yin’s visual creations depict flowing thoughts and changing in moods, continuing like a circle, one cycle after another—always returning to the original starting point. Observing the mountains, islands, rivers, human living patterns, migration of animals, and the colors of the earth, Yin perceived tangible combinations of numbers–did these concrete manifestations of “numbers” represent their true essence? Yin desired to use this exhibition to explore the true “appearances” of things, which are not just based on their external appearance, but also requires inner awareness and exploration. This exhibition is a cultural journey that allows viewers to transcend external forms and seek the true meaning of life from the depths of their souls.
