Artists inject vitality into community with recycled creations

A group of Vietnamese, Spanish and Australian artists have injected vitality into a Red River community with recycled creations depicting different facets of Vietnamese culture.

Local and international artists adorn the 200-meter-long Red River wall cutting through Phuc Tan ward, Hoan Kiem district, with various unique designs (Photo: VNA)

‘Ancient Boat on Red River’ comprises 10,000 used plastic bottles (Photo: VNA)

Artists behind ‘Riverside City’ give used drums a new coat of color and pile them into high-rise lookalikes with windows (Photo: VNA)

A dragon made from a broken mirror curves beneath bamboo wickers, found in Long Bien market and once used to trap chickens, now turned to lanterns by Spanish creatives (Photo: VNA)

A recreation of Hanoi feudal life features a carved painting and nicely cut human shapes made of metal (Photo: VNA)

Vietnamese, Spanish and Australian artists inject vitality into a Red River community with recycled creations depicting different facets of Vietnamese culture (Photo: VNA)

The decoration project is scheduled to complete by the end of February (Photo: VNA)

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