At the New York Botanical Garden’s orchid show, Lily Kwong tailors her Edenic maximalism into a homeland voyage.
and now designing “Natural Heritage” for the 20th year of NYBG’s orchid show—the 34-year-old LA-based artist has made peace with the inevitable sensation-to-social-media pipeline: “We’re in a visual culture now—it’s just the reality.”
Kwong, dressed in a L.F. Markey jumpsuit and Air Force 1 low-tops, steps carefully around a few puddles lingering inside the conservatory. “People are shooting iconic works that have lived in peace and transformed art history for hundreds of years, and then, suddenly, those works are taken to this other vortex of Instagram,” she muses. “My husband,”
“he says it’s like, once you put the work out there, it doesn’t belong to you anymore. I’m trying to breathe into that a little bit more.”personal: As the first woman and person of color to helm one of NYBG’s biggest traditions, she always knew she wanted this show to be more than just a maxed-out bouquet. “So much of the shows were about the beauty of the orchids, but not necessarily a biocultural approach,” Kwong explains.
Kwong recalls sitting in her family’s living room and staring at these scrolls and their classical waveforms for hours. “It was just these beautiful images of rural China and quotidian life there—something I felt really attracted to and connected to but that was out of reach for me,” she says. “For me, the homeland can kind of feel like that, like this fantasy.
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