In this work, Minoliti critically engages with ecological metaphor, using mushrooms as symbols of and references to the importance of companion species in sustaining the earth’s ecosystems. As well, childhood is central to Minoliti’s practice, for the artists sees it as a state of subordination and autonomy deprivation benefiting the surveillance and control of bodies and desires that is linked to extractive capitalism. Here a grove of mushrooms are rendered cartoonish and abstract, their forms reduced to simple geometry, which Minoliti adopts in order to challenge the conventions of historical - and masculinist - modernism in visual art. The tones in this work are vibrant and strong, the canvas dominated by a large field of bright red. Yet the artist balances brighter, more earthy tones with softer colors, like light yellow and pink, thereby leading the eyes gently over the surface of the composition. A textured application of paint disrupts the conventionally minimal aesthetic of historical modernism by breaking up the visual field.