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12 × 12 inch painting on canvas
In 2023, Lake City Park honored author Octavia Butler by renaming 37th Ave NE as “Octavia Butler Avenue.” A pioneer of visionary fiction, Afrofuturism, and ecofeminism, Butler lived in Seattle from 1999 to 2006 and was often seen walking through the neighborhood. She moved north from California out of concern that climate change was making her home state unlivable—a reality she explored in her fictional works.
Knox’s broader body of work also explores life in the wake of climate change. Like Butler, Knox uses walking as a way of connecting to her environment, and this painting is inspired by the artist’s own walks through Seattle. Drawing from Dawn, the first novel in Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, the painting depicts Lilith, represented as a blooming flower, as she looks back at the alien tree which has been her prison for 250 years. Her captor taunts her hesitation: “Back in the cage, Lilith?”
12 × 12 inch painting on canvas
In 2023, Lake City Park honored author Octavia Butler by renaming 37th Ave NE as “Octavia Butler Avenue.” A pioneer of visionary fiction, Afrofuturism, and ecofeminism, Butler lived in Seattle from 1999 to 2006 and was often seen walking through the neighborhood. She moved north from California out of concern that climate change was making her home state unlivable—a reality she explored in her fictional works.
Knox’s broader body of work also explores life in the wake of climate change. Like Butler, Knox uses walking as a way of connecting to her environment, and this painting is inspired by the artist’s own walks through Seattle. Drawing from Dawn, the first novel in Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, the painting depicts Lilith, represented as a blooming flower, as she looks back at the alien tree which has been her prison for 250 years. Her captor taunts her hesitation: “Back in the cage, Lilith?”