In her debut solo exhibition at Make Room Gallery, Where Willows Rise, Katya Labowe-Stoll imagines a chimerical post-deluge world shaped by natural tension, resilience, and shifting hierarchies. Across seven paintings set within the same fantastical mountain range at different times of day, primordial human-fish figures inhabit surreal landscapes of flourishing willows, reflective waters, phosphorescent flora, and palpable heat. Drawing inspiration from Frederic Church, George Burr, Käthe Kollwitz, and the diverse plant life surrounding her Mt. Washington studio, Labowe-Stoll uses dramatic shifts in light, color, and atmosphere to create an oneiric environment where her figures explore the land through touch while remaining psychologically detached from one another. Their interactions with plants, animals, and each other move between curiosity, intimacy, consumption, and control, reflecting humanity’s complicated relationship with the natural world. Ultimately, Where Willows Rise asks what responsibility we bear toward the environments we inhabit and consume—and what consequences follow when nature’s limits are ignored.