“I would never want to consider myself a successful person—I love failure too much,” says Hong Kong artist Natalie Lo Lai Lai. “It’s the best motivator to make you realise change needs to happen.” In the pursuit of change, Lo recommends failure, going slow and opening up to nature. “That’s where all possibility exists, and it’s when all the good ideas come out.” But while this may summarise Lo’s approach to life now, she only became fully aware of her need to take this when she started farming in 2010.
The artist left her full-time job as a travel writer in 2010 and joined the farming collective Sangwoodgoon, which loosely translates into “living
