My Flowers Died; So I'll Bury Them And Plant New Ones
A Solo Exhibition By Silent Fox
11.1 - 12.6 2025
My flowers died; So I'll bury them and plant new ones is an exploration of the ways grief, learned behaviors, and survival patterns pass through families like roots touching underground. Silent Fox uses this metaphor to examine how we inherit not just features and stories, but entire emotional landscapes from those who came before us.
Grief arrives in many forms: through significant loss, life changes, and the slow erosion of self that trauma brings. Fox imagines each person as a flower in a community garden, their petals formed from memories and experiences. Though each stands alone, their roots intertwine, allowing pain to bleed from one to another across generations. When a flower dies, its roots remain.
Through this new body of work that includes acrylic painting, drawing, screen printing, and virtual reality, Silent Fox’s central question becomes: do we keep watering what's dead, or do we plant something new?
In a society that demands we function without space to process pain, Fox creates space to consider their path forward through making. The exhibition functions as both portal and container: a world where color, character, and narrative open up space for personal reflection. The work examines what we've inherited while actively choosing what we plant for those who come after us.
My flowers died; So I'll bury them and plant new ones is both a personal reckoning and collective invitation: healing, like gardening, is both solitary work and community practice. Silent Fox offers not only images to be seen, but a space to be in. The exhibition is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and imagine alternative ways of being.
