My Flowers Died; So I'll Bury Them And Plant New Ones
My Flowers Died; So I'll Bury Them And Plant New Ones
A Solo Exhibition By Silent Fox
November 1 - December 6
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.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1
Artist Talk: Saturday, Dec 6, 4pm
PF Upstairs Gallery
Open Gallery Hours through Dec 6:
Thursday: 1pm - 5pm
Fridays: 1pm - 5pm
Saturdays: 2pm - 6pm
ARTIST BIO
Silent Fox is a Minnesota-based visual artist, graphic designer, and muralist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, illustration, and digital media. A graduate of Augsburg University with a BA in studio arts and graphic design, they have established themselves as a versatile creator under the banner of Silentfox.Studio, with their work supported by MSAB grants in both 2021 and 2022. As a PF Studios resident artist and active contributor to the Public Functionary team, Fox's practice has been shaped by sustained engagement with a community of practice that values experimentation and collaboration.
In their first solo exhibition at Public Functionary, Silent Fox invites audiences into a universe where fantasy, pop culture, and personal reflection collide. Known for constructing visual worlds that are both playful and profound, Fox blends the familiarity of anime and comic-inspired aesthetics with the depth of their lived experience. Their practice thrives on contradictions: digital crispness meets analog texture in mixed-media paintings; simple, character-driven imagery carries questions of belonging and empowerment. Drawing from the mural scale they're also known for, Fox's canvases become stages for taking up space and asking to be seen.
Influenced by Cai Guo-Qiang's conceptual ambition, Miyazaki's cinematic world-making, and Hebru Brantley's comic-inspired iconography, Silent Fox situates themselves in conversation with contemporary artists who leverage pop-culture references to explore difficult experiences. Their chosen name reflects their artistic philosophy: the power of quiet observation, meaningful reflection, and deliberate exploration in contemporary art-making.
Public Functionary’s 2025 Fall Exhibition Program is sponsored by BLNCD Naturals.