I hate to ascribe something so heavy to Jessixa Grilihas’ work (after all, I know her mostly as the illustrator of the Meatface comic that brightens our Seven Nights pages). But when I look at her new series, “Grew,” I can’t help but think of the ongoing struggle between the natural world and the human-made world. We see it every time weeds grow up through cracks in the pavement, every time a tree is removed to make way for a strip mall, every time vines snake up and blanket the entire sides of old buildings. In “Grew,” she juxtaposes elements from our childhoods (playground slides, crayons, etc.) against leafless trees. In one particularly intriguing piece, tree limbs and roots bust through a school bus. It calls to mind the original spontaneity we were born with but had disciplined out of us via the rigidity of the public school system. However, the beauty of these pieces is that even though it’s obvious there is criticism of the system, it’s not demonized. Rather, it seems Jessixa retains a fondness for those days.