a sliver is a seed presents major new sculptural commissions alongside collaborative works developed over the past two years by Boring Earth, an artist collective concerned with cultivating more-than-human mutualisms and relations among living environments. Convened by artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, Boring Earth gathers material and immaterial beings into a practice that traces thresholds of intimacy between what is seen and sensed, conjuring elemental ontologies that gesture toward alternative worldings. For a sliver is a seed, Boring Earth refigures the pipeline as a portal between…