In a dry and silent desert, an unknown force rises from beneath the sand, folding time into bloom.

Grow in Love continues Jiayu’s inquiry into the regenerative potential of discarded materials and the entanglement between human beauty rituals and planetary ecosystems. Reimagines sustainability not as an endpoint, but as a dynamic principle of transformation. All the glass used in the piece was collected from the public by Lancôme. Each bottle is refired into a delicate golden rose, extending the material’s life through rebirth by alteration.

The installation becomes a speculative ecology, where luxury waste is metabolized into botanical iconography, and decay is folded into new cycles of life. Set within a hexagonal sand chamber, these glass flowers emerge from a rock-like structure embedded with meteoritic textures — a sediment of terrestrial and cosmic time. Grow in Love invites people to encounter a place where what was empty begins.

Ultimately, love is what enables humans and nature to coexist, regenerate, and continue.

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