Lily Scout Kwong
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Deep gratitude to @voguemagazine for sharing the story of the Gardens of Renewal on Earth Day ???? ???? “I see this garden - two small lawns in a big city on a big planet—as an act of resistance. Maybe it won’t stop the drilling of a new oil field, but it will protect and nurture your spirit. It will build community. It will provide vital habitat. It will provide space to explore and learn and grieve. We need a radical reimagining of our way of life, and what better place to begin than a garden, which has held our culture’s dreams and aspirations for millennia? This is especially important in a political climate that feels so divided. We conceptualized this piece in 2022 as a resource for COVID recovery. We wanted to reignite a sense of community that could inspire us all to imagine a freer world. But now, the political climate has changed so much and this garden has a different purpose. Safe spaces, play and experimentation are strong messages in the face of authoritarianism. Art, song, dance, ritual, joy—these are all ways to fight the powers that be.” Thank you @annagranola @chloemalle ???????? Photos by @dbp_ ????
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Subterrestrial is Lily Kwong’s first environmental work in Los Angeles since 2017 and is presented at Night Gallery for one year through the fall of 2025. The installation is designed to evolve with the seasons, carefully seated with a diverse selection of Native trees, grass, and flowers. Installed in the courtyard of Night Gallery North, Subterrestrial takes inspiration from Hügelkultur is a permaculture technique for creating sustainable, self-irrigating garden beds using mounds of woody debris and other organic materials. The artist broke through the gallery’s concrete courtyard, an act of liberation that speaks to the rich ecological potential beneath the sprawling, omnipresent concrete of industrial downtown Los Angeles. “It felt like a small but vital act of resistance to liberate this small patch of soil and return her to an imagined original state.” - Lily Kwong
2024-11-19
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An ecstatic thank you to @willvheinrich for shining a spotlight on The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage which @nytimes calls “lush but delicate…incarnating the abundance of nature” in a celebration of this extraordinary flower that “…makes a free gift of its sheer pleasurable beauty.” Get lost in our orchid Shangri-la @nybg this weekend, opening to the public 2/18 ✨⚡️???? Photos by @elias.williams
2023-02-18
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When art and plants meet, something magic happens... ???? ???? ????️
2025-05-20
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Sculpting earth, moving stone, dirt under the fingernails, lady slippers and columbine yearning to blossom, buds still tightly curled, bones aching from the still-cold rain, the smell of mulch, the gently fluffiness of new soil, the sound of Tom’s hammer, wheelbarrows scooting back and forth and back and forth, the loosening of the root ball, the naked Salix waiting to flush, the tightly packed pots full of promise, the end-of-winter sun cheering us on, our hero tree strong & steady and the teamwork, oh the teamwork! Thank you @madsqparknyc, @shannonlai, @lilysayhey, Tom, Stephanie, Gabby, Anthony, Holly and the many many generous hands that came together to deliver NYC this native meditation garden ????????✨
2025-05-10
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Thank you @officemagazinenyc for highlighting Gardens of Renewal and my visionary friends @artatatimelikethis, it’s been inspiring to work together in creativity & resistance during these trying times ???? “Gardens of Renewal at Madison Square Park is truly a dream project. It’s been an aspiration of mine to build something for the iconic park since I first took landscape design courses at New York Botanical Garden over a decade ago. Our Meditation Garden and Children’s Garden has been almost two years in the making. Gardens of Renewal is an offering, a prayer for humans to be brought back into harmony with nature and for balance, peaceful co-existence and reciprocity to be restored to our society and ecosystem.” ???????????? Words by @vittoriabenzine, Photo by @dbp_
2025-05-02
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The joy is in the doing ????????♀️???????? Gardens of Renewal is now on view @madsqparknyc through September ????
2025-04-26
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@madsqparknyc presents ‘Gardens of Renewal’ by lily_kwong, on view through September. Gardens of Renewal consists of two botanical installations, taking shape across the Redbud and Sparrow Lawns, each with an intricate pathway that provides visitors with opportunities for play, learning, self-reflection and ecological awakening. “I was drawn to the motif of a spiral as one of our most ancient and enduring symbols. In Buddhism, the spiral is considered the path back to the center, to the true self. It embodies the cyclical journey of life.” ”Though its beauty is important, there is also a strong political message running through the work” “I wanted the space to not only be somewhere where people could meditate and reconnect with nature in some way, but also reflect on what we stand to lose.” - Lily Kwong For more information on this exhibition and to access the field guides and meditation audio, please visit gardens-of-renewal.com.
2025-04-24
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In honor of Earth Day, Gardens of Renewal opens today @madsqparknyc! ???????? This piece is an offering to the earth, a prayer to restore balance to our planet and culture. We embarked on this collaborative project nearly two years ago, exploring the ecological potential of the built environment while underscoring the political urgency of the climate crisis. Across two separate yet interconnected immersive landscapes on Redbud and Sparrow lawns, the Meditation Garden features a spiral pathway composed of 50 different species of native plants that grow more rare and threatened towards the center of the labyrinth. The Children’s Garden features a library, stage, play structures and hundreds of indigenous plants meant to spark joy, creativity and ecological awakening. This is our love letter to public space in New York - our incredible team created this eco-sanctuary as an opportunity to reconnect with the earth and one another. Free & open to the public through September, link in bio for a list of the remarkable programming coming at you this summer & so much more. Over the next several months, this biodiverse pollinator garden will bloom, burst and evolve - please keep returning on this journey back to the center ???????????? Thank you to my dear collaborators @shannonlai for making this possible & @lilysayhey for leading the design of the Children’s Garden structures and beyond. And of course the Madison Square Park Conservancy - executive director Holly Leict for your unwavering belief, Stephanie Lucas & team for your horticultural genius, Tom Reidy for your fabrication wonders and the many, many hands that dug into the earth to bring this project to life ???????????????? photography by @rashmigillphotography
2025-04-22
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