With his passion and skill, Kieu Cao Dung has preserved flowers in his pieces of art imbued with Vietnamese culture.
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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)