This series began with some portraits of plants taken at the Chelsea Physic Garden, one of the oldest gardens of “useful plants”. Since the 17th century, plants from all over the world have been transported in Wardian cases to Europe, categorised according to their functionalities. Extracted from their natural habitat, some were cultivated into infamous garden decorations whereas some transformed into notorious invasive nightmares.

The images were taken by a medium format analog camera and hot-pressed on synthetic silk, mimicking the effects of traditional Chinese Gongbi paintings of Flowers and Bird(花鸟画), coated on both sides with ink so that the entangled plants become submerged in blended shades. They were then juxtaposed with cutouts from a vintage World Atlas (1970s), Post-it stickers and pages of vintage notebooks, and mapping pins. The finishing touch was a layer of two-point perspective grids silk-screen printed in gold.