Touching Grass

Exhibitions

In a world defined by relentless movement and extraction, Touching Grass invited us to pause and feel. The exhibition, on view from May 23 through July 8, 2025, gathered artists from both urban and rural landscapes who reimagined our relationship to the natural world, and to ourselves, through fieldwork, stillness, and sensory return. Summer, with its slow days and long light, became a portal for rest and reflection, an act that, within a capitalist structure, was nothing short of radical.

The phrase "touching grass" emerged in digital culture as shorthand for grounding oneself, stepping away from screens, discourse, and abstraction to reconnect with the real. Here, that call to ground became both literal and cosmic. The featured works drew connections between fields and frequencies, from chlorophyll to constellations, tracing how nature links soil to sky, water to memory, and body to cosmos.

Artists in the exhibition interpreted the gesture of touching grass through diverse practices spanning painting, photography, sculpture, illustration, textile, and mixed media. Their works navigated between inner and outer landscapes, conjuring gardens in concrete, rural quietude, freshwater rituals, and speculative terrains where Earth and elsewhere collided.

Whether informed by ancestral agricultural traditions, urban green spaces, or cosmic mapping, each artist affirmed that rest, ritual, and return are necessary for collective survival and creative flourishing. Touching Grass proposed that to touch the Earth is not to escape, but to remember. To decelerate is to resist. To rest is to reclaim time, space, and possibility.