What does it mean to inhabit the landscape as a body? Is it a vessel or animated commons—porous, shifting, and shaped by external and internal currents alike? The Mexican idiom Cobija de Tripas, or Gut Blanket, conjures an image both visceral and comforting—another body that enfolds and surrounds us. When landscape is a gut blanket, we are perpetually in relation: bound not only to one another, but also to the environments we traverse and to the invisible threads that tie us to everything else. If comfort, vulnerability, and troubling interdependence are braided together, where do our bodies end and the world begin?

In this group exhibition, a cohort of MFA artists invites us to peer into darkness, search for restoration, nurture intimate border-crossing ecologies, weave archival memory, imbibe community care, speculate on Martian foraging, and metabolize control. Research-based, mixed media, and performative art projects function as a collective Gut Blanket—raising questions about how human, nonhuman, and environmental bodies exist in a state of perpetual negotiation with cultural and ecological forces.