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“I think artists are inherently poetic,” says Jaylon Israel Hicks about his debut solo-exhibition, Gothica. To Hicks’ point, poetry, at its core, is the process of putting physical form – be it through language or, in this case, through images and objects – to dimensions of being that are ineffable, but sensed nonetheless. To this end, the exhibition serves as a gestural reminder of our inalienable, yet often inarticulable, responsibility to the Earth and the myriad lifeforms it sustains. Gothica is also invested in expanding what we mean when we speak of “nature” to include the human …