Katherine Filice has been walking in forests her whole life. Not as a hobby — as a practice. There's a Japanese concept for it, Shinrin-yoku, forest bathing, but Katherine was doing it long before she had a word for it. That time in the landscape shows up in her work. The Nature of Things is a collection of paintings and drawings that came out of years of that kind of looking — the slow kind, where you start to see how a root system and a river delta are really the same shape, how light moves through a canopy the way memory moves through the mind. The marks she makes are deliberate but never rigid. The layers build up the way sediment does. There's a stillness to the work that somehow also feels alive. It's not the kind of art that announces itself. It's the kind you have to spend time with — and when you do, you start to notice things about the natural world, and maybe about yourself, that were always there but easy to miss. That's really what this show is about. Not nature as backdrop or metaphor, but nature as something we're actually part of — tangled up in, whether we pay attention or not.
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