With his passion and skill, Kieu Cao Dung has preserved flowers in his pieces of art imbued with Vietnamese culture.
The idea to make the flowers last forever in order to make souvenirs came to Kieu Cao Dung when he worked as a tour guide and saw foreign tourists' interest in gifts showing some part of Vietnamese culture (Photo: VNA)
Dung's working space where he creates pieces of art imbued with Vietnamese folk culture (Photo: VNA)
After being preliminarily processed, the flowers are treated with chemicals (Photo: VNA)
The flowers are then dyed with safe dyes (Photo: VNA)
After that, they are dried (Photo: VNA)
To make the flowers soft as originally, Dung uses a tool to flatten the petals (Photo: VNA)
Dung shares his experience and skills with young people who have the same passion like him (Photo: VNA)
Dung introduces a piece of art to a foreigner at his souvenir shop (Photo: VNA)
"One Pillar Pagoda", one of Dung's most sophisticated works of art (Photo: VNA)
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