Byron Au Yong
@auyong.bsky.social
composer and educator posting plants
Cahuilla and Coast Salish lands and seas
Palm Springs and Seattle 🌈 🌴 🌲 🌅
www.byronauyong.com 🎹 🌱 🐢 🎶 🙋🏻
Cahuilla and Coast Salish lands and seas
Palm Springs and Seattle 🌈 🌴 🌲 🌅
www.byronauyong.com 🎹 🌱 🐢 🎶 🙋🏻
Oh, how long does it take for San Pedro cactus to root? These have been sitting here without being watered for 10 months! #cactus #gardening #nature #plants
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oh, how long does it take for San Pedro cactus to root? These have been sitting here without being watered for 10 months! #cactus #gardening #nature #plants
Happy World Opera Day! Grateful for all who've been part of Stuck Elevator in Knoxville, Hawaii, New Haven, Nashville, San Francisco, and more 🥡 New productions happen at Opera Grand Rapids (Feb 20 & 21, 2026) and San Jose State University (Apr 10 & 12, 2026) 🎵 #music #opera #plants #WorldOperaDay
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Happy World Opera Day! Grateful for all who've been part of Stuck Elevator in Knoxville, Hawaii, New Haven, Nashville, San Francisco, and more 🥡 New productions happen at Opera Grand Rapids (Feb 20 & 21, 2026) and San Jose State University (Apr 10 & 12, 2026) 🎵 #music #opera #plants #WorldOperaDay
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
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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
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
September 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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
"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
August 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"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
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"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
"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
August 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"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
"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
August 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"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
"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
August 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"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
"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
August 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"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
"My favorite kind of touch stretches me into the future" (9). My Boyfriend Apocalypse, Antmen Pimentel Mendoza #anthurium #garden #revelation #red #flower #poetry
July 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"My favorite kind of touch stretches me into the future" (9). My Boyfriend Apocalypse, Antmen Pimentel Mendoza #anthurium #garden #revelation #red #flower #poetry
"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
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"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
"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
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"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
"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
July 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"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
July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
June 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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
Healthy prayer plant with three wooden mushrooms I found in a box labeled free #seattle #plants #mushrooms
May 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Healthy prayer plant with three wooden mushrooms I found in a box labeled free #seattle #plants #mushrooms
May 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
