Both hybrid and arrangement, The Orchid Folios is an elegant collection consisting of select ‘cuttings’ of texts that speak to and with one another. Mok ambitiously intersperses excerpts from historical texts (playfully edited and/or redacted) with instructions, stories, poems, essay questions (think SBQ) and even advertisements. As you progress through the pages, these disparate threads gradually unfold and bloom, leaving you with the sense of holding a bouquet of a book. I found this read delightfully intertextual and experimental.