Keeping Things Whole features a group of artists considering human engagement with nature and its rhythms. We are interested in the idea that it is increasingly difficult—and has perhaps long been unproductive—to draw fixed boundaries between human activity and an untouched natural world. The works in this exhibition redirect the landscape painting tradition by highlighting the tools and narratives through which we document and seek to understand our environment. Insofar as we shape our landscape, the landscape shapes us. Embedded in ever-changing ecological systems, we are never physically or psychologically separate from the natural world. Keeping Things Whole borrows its title from a 1979 poem by Canadian-born writer Mark Strand: