In Love, Wild, Lawn, 2021

In Love, Wild, Lawn, Xie Rong (also known as Echo Morgan) layers wildflowers and weeds gathered from her own front garden into a dense, organic composition. Across her face, a single character reads: Love.

The cultivated front lawn is often a symbol of order, pride and conformity — a carefully maintained marker of belonging. By allowing the grass to grow higher and the weeds to flourish, Xie Rong proposes an alternative ethic: one of openness rather than control. What is typically cut back or removed becomes central.

Weeds, like marginalised identities, are defined as unwanted only within imposed systems of value. Here, unruliness becomes generative. The work reframes wild growth as a gesture of inclusion — a quiet resistance to homogeny.

While more contemplative than her durational performances, the print retains the political charge of Xie Rong’s wider practice. Vulnerability and defiance coexist, held within a simple but potent word: Love.

In risograph printing, each colour is printed as a separate pass through a risograph machine — a stencil-based duplicator that presses organic soy inks into the paper. Risograph inks are naturally vibrant — they are renowned for their vivid colours and evident textures. The inks are transparent so layers build to create more colours. Slight shifts in registration and a soft grain make every impression subtly unique.

In Love, Wild, Lawn is printed on Olin natural white 170gsm, an uncoated, FSC-certified stock whose gentle warmth lets the colours glow. The edition is strictly limited to 100 and will never be reprinted. All prints were produced at the London Centre for Book Arts.