Author Bela Negi’s The Tree With Eyes explores mountain life beyond its usual image, revealing changing realities through flawed yet deeply human characters.

In “Heirloom,” the artist transforms mallow weeds, lace, quartz, Corten steel and cast glass into fragile but forceful meditations on memory, inheritance and regeneration.

If human beings possessed the power to adjust time according to the ur­gency of their circumstances, many would do so without hesitation. A struggling entrepreneur would hasten tomorrow’s breakthrough ...