When you look closely, you can see expansive, beautiful stories in the smallest details. A hand gesture, a head tilt, a shift in weight on one’s feet. Karn Knutson’s prints explore the gestures and expressions we share universally but are uniquely our own in the moments we’re living.

Everywhere Knutson has lived, where she’s traveled, the cafés she’s lingered in, she watches people. She tries to see their stories in those brief glimpses and translate them onto the page. Her tall, slender figures are intended to represent an individual’s place in their existence — like a single line on a vast plane, one moment in time. Expressing ideas through the simple gestures of her “stick figures” lets the viewer interpret the story without too many literal details getting in the way, letting the ideas expand beyond the edges.

Knutson shows us ourselves in moments of reflection, contemplating the transitions through life, processing the struggles, finding ways forward with knowledge, sometimes hard lessons from our past, and learning from our choices good and bad—the things we all feel but can’t always express until we see something that lets us talk about it outside ourselves.

The exhibition will remain on display through May 11.