Rotten Beams Make Fertile Soil is an exhibition of new work by Phil Garber that interrogates systems of marginalization from the outside. Rooted in Garber’s identity as a disabled person who stutters, the works are engaged as a communication technology—a torn acrylic flag with blue liquid coursing down its surface, a chaotic network of tubes pumping fluid through a gnarled system, text works generated through custom software. Systems of marginalization rhyme; they do not match. Garber does not attempt to flatten identities or resolve complexity. The thesis is simple: we are all here, now, together. So how do we proceed?