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If a tree falls in the Metaverse, does it echo and shake the earth? Do the birds cry in mourning?

Thukral and Tagra’s new body of work contends with the increasingly porous boundaries between the online and the offline, and the new norms that come with this terrain. Imagined as an Arboretum, the trees that are the inspirations for this series of paintings glitch and fold onto themselves, repeating, while other details dissolve into pixels. Hidden behind the leaves, abstracted characters watch you watching them.

Painted in photo-realistic detail, the paintings of Arboretum reverse the desire …