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See yourself in a forest rife with color and shape. Vines climb to waving canopies. Ferns bunch in fractals at the feet of trees. Peel back the soil to find the roots’ spindly fingers woolen with fungal filaments. They reach out to one another, interlaced in rhizomatic discourse. This is life as found in Brett Flanigan’s Life Paintings: depictions not of natural life but of the systems and patterns that engender life.

Dying trees may bequeath their carbon-stores to neighbors. A Douglas fir has been observed to warn nearby ponderosa pines of danger.

These are works deeply informed by process. …