Elegy to the Underground

While the trees above ground are critical for human survival in producing oxygen, here the artist is particularly drawn to what happens below ground in the “recent” discoveries about latticed fungi or mycorrhizal networks. Through sharing resources and working together in complex and infinite pathways, alliances, and kinship networks, trees reach enormousness and increase their chances of survival and ours as well. These new discoveries of the hidden life of trees suggest new metaphors for our survival and how we should act to protect our home and our species. Her Elegy to the Underground watercolors and oil paintings are a tribute or memorial to trees whose heartbreaking loss she fears and mourns.