Ly immigrated from Vietnam to the United States in her early childhood, spending a year in between at a refugee camp in Indonesia. Part of surviving the experience was her imagination and ability to see the magic in naturally occurring objects. “My memory of it is not the starkness of our living conditions but more of the natural world and how magical it was — in my imagination it was very transformed.” Crafting nature into narrative, each of Ly’s compositions tell a unique story. Taking the name from high school Advanced Placement Biology, the studio’s moniker is a nod to the world of natural forms which Ly paints her canvas with. Always embracing the ethereal, naturally occurring forms can become transcendent things of beauty in her hands. With florals at the center of her practice, the imagery is ripe with associations to markers of time — from funerals to weddings — at the core of the human experience.