Throughout her two-decade career, Saya Woolfalk has crafted the elaborate story-world of the Empathics. This imagined society of women—part plant and part human—is distinguished by their extraordinary capacity for empathy. Through multimedia installations, paintings, sculptural garments, dazzling projections, and performances, Woolfalk invites audiences to imagine themselves within this alternate universe. Woolfalk takes recognizable elements from the real world and blends them with imagery…