Byron Au Yong

hare's foot inkcap mushrooms aerial view

hare's foot inkcap mushrooms

hare's foot inkcap mushrooms

Magical and fleeting transparent mushrooms (hare's foot inkcap fungi) found while walking during a creative residency at the Bloedel Reserve #art #creativity #fungi #magical #mushrooms #music #nature #residency

Bloedel Reserve trees

Piano keyboard in a.wall of windows in the forest

Grateful to start my first day on a Creative Residency at the Bloedel Reserve with the reminder of this quote from Prentice Bloedel: "Nature can do without man, but man cannot do without nature." #art #creativity #music #nature #residency

Byron Au Yong standing next to plants at a cultural center in Taipei

Inspired by indoor plants planted in a former cafeteria sink at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei ∆ 雨後春筍 yǔ hòu chūn sǔn (rain after spring bamboo) 🌱🦜🙋🏻 #creativity #culture #design #plants #tropical #indoor #garden #inspiration #Taipei #Taiwan

Touching the Art book surrounded by plants

"So the enemy of art is that which makes the gesture of creativity into a commodity instead of inspiring new ways of thinking" (227). Touching the Art, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore #art #garden #creativity #revelation #flowers #plants

"Maybe a different way to say history repeats itself would be to say history never resolves itself. History is a lesson, this may be true, but, as with any other lesson, the people who need it the most rarely listen" (255). Touching the Art, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore #history #revelation #cucumber

Healthy jade and prayer plant in the window with a black backdrop

"You look for what you can't find elsewhere... where people are having trouble finding anything, and then eventually there isn't any neighborhood... except the one that replaced the neighborhood" (79). Touching the Art, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore #gentrification #revelation #resist #fascism #plants

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book surrounded by plants

"My shame is not cultural but political. It is being painfully aware of the power dynamic that pulls at the levers of social interactions and the cringing indignity of where I am in that order either as the afflicted-or as the afflicter" (75). Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong #art #garden #revelation

Crown of thorns red flowers

"There's desire to hold, and there's desire to help, and then there's just desire that's desire, and this is all three" (30). Touching the Art, Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein #art #garden #creativity #revelation #flowers #plant

Jade plant babies

"Even when you're not making art, you're seeing what will become art... When I was a child, Gladys told me creativity meant everything. I believed this myth, and it saved me" (35). Touching the Art, Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein #art #garden #creativity #revelation #jade #plant @mbsycamore.bsky.social

Moss on top of a stone lantern

"Coincidence doesn't always tell us about history, but history always tells us about coincidence" (7). Touching the Art, Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein #art #garden #history #revelation #moss #stone #lantern

Flowering anthurium plant

"My favorite kind of touch stretches me into the future" (9). My Boyfriend Apocalypse, Antmen Pimentel Mendoza #anthurium #garden #revelation #red #flower #poetry

Chain on a tree

"Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn't that how whiteness recruits us? Whether it's through retribution or indebtedness, who are we when we become better than them in a system that destroyed us" (183)? Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong #garden #chain #tree #revelation

Plant amidst pistachio shells

"The poem is a net that catches the stutters, the hesitations, rather than the perfectly formed phrase" (139). Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong writing about what she learned from Myung Mi Kim #garden #poetry #plant #revelation

Painting and monstera

"Artistic othering has to do with Innovation, invention, and change... Social othering has to do with power, exclusion, and privilege " (97). Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong #art #garden #monstera #painting #plant #revelation

Fallen log with holes next to small stone

"One characteristic of racism is that children are treated like adults and adults are treated like children" (77). Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong #garden #revelation #stone #log

Red and orange flowers

Flowers continue to bloom #garden #plants #resistance

Eager for this book 🌱

Plants in the window

Succulents in the window eager for summer #seattle #plants

Monstera plant

Reframing Port City now as an operatic farce about immortality. The characters are tech billionaires creating robotic avatars of themselves during this golden age. And, yes, that's a monstera 🌱 #inspiration #plant

Watering plants this morning, listening to Gershwin, and looking forward to you being out of the hospital 🌱🎵 happy birthday 💞

Prayer plant and mushrooms

Healthy prayer plant with three wooden mushrooms I found in a box labeled free #seattle #plants #mushrooms

Baby plants in ceramic cups with paintings of Chinese gods

🌮 TACO! The ancestors have a sense of humor as mini jade plants grow #chinese #teacups #trade #plants #taco

Trees

Singing in a magical forest in Knoxville #forest #aeternam

White flowers

Rest in peace, Bill Finn 🌱 it's been 20 years since I studied with you, but your gruffness continues to guide me #elegies #music

9 plants on two round tables

8 plants in the window

Rest in Peace, Sofia Gubaidulina #composer #garden #sacred #music #plants

Baby cactus appears

Arial view of cactus

San Pedro cactus 🌵

Potted San Pedro cactus this morning #cactus #garden

folded paper by Byron Au Yong cradled in a tree

"18 million acres of forest have been lost each year due to climate change over the past decade" 🌲 from Archinect article about Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest in Madison Square Park (2021) 🍃 Photo from my research for Forest Aeternam archinect.com/news/article... #arts #forest #aeternam #requiem #research

Aloe vera in my garden

Aloe vera in pots

Healing aloe vera from my garden replanted to pots then given away for my birthday yesterday 🌱🪴

#aloe #garden #gift #healing #nature #plants

vinyl record hanging on a tree

Thich Nhat Hanh: “What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.” #seattle #tree #vinyl

Plants

Plant in window

The plant I moved from the windowless elevator landing and placed in my hotel room for a week grew 🪴 #madison #plant #sunlight #wisconsin