The collection includes Foxy Bolete, Orange Oak Bolete, Orange Cap and Red Cap, Forest Pair, Guardians of the Small, Woodland Guardians, Woodland Trio, Boletes in Green, Forest Elders, Mosslight Boletes, Ivory Boletes, White Boletes, Emerald Boletes, Autumn Boletes, Birch Bolete, and Boletes in Motion. Together, the works explore the varied colours, structures, and relationships found among these distinctive woodland forms.
Across the collection, rounded caps and sturdy stems create repeated rhythms, while differences in height, scale, and orientation suggest companionship, hierarchy, and shared growth. Some groupings resemble families or quiet gatherings; others take on the presence of guardians and elders. The surrounding forest floor is equally expressive, shifting through moss green, emerald, ivory, autumn orange, earthy brown, and deep woodland shadow.
Viewed together, The Secret Life of Boletes reveals the extraordinary within a world often overlooked. Through enlarged forms, tactile brushwork, and expressive colour, Alvi transforms the fleeting appearance of mushrooms into an expansive meditation on coexistence, resilience, seasonal change, and the layered life beneath the woodland canopy.
















