PAINTINGS
Gallery One, 2025
Mycophilia is a meditation on the unseen threads that weave life together, inspired by the mycelium networks that stitch plants, trees, and ecosystems into quiet conversation. Though our human connections are often invisible, they are essential to our growth, our survival and our flourishing. Mushrooms rise up as humble messengers, reminding us of the unseen worlds that sustain us.
I, too, do not exist alone, and neither does my work. Collaboration with my community of friends and family has become an important part of my practice. The textile pieces are stitched by my mother, Diane Burt, with Matriarch woven from fabrics passed down through the hands of women in my family. The clip from Alexandria Boddie’s video piece “Oh, Rosie!” is drawn from a collaboration with my longtime friend and captures a moment where I served as both Art Director and artist, my painting casting color and shape into the room as Boddie dances through it.
Community and connection are not simply inspirations; they are lifelines. The more fully we recognize and nourish these bonds, the more we, like the forest, will thrive.