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Vietnam has been an wet rice civilization for thousands of years, but I often see gold artifacts bearing the image of kings and figures of religions, very rarely see such artifacts being engraved in the form of a commoner. The work is a statue of a farmer based on an image taken from the 19th century, recast in gold to see if the precious material will bring the peasant the aura like a king?
Description from The Grapevine Selection Exhibition Catalog, 2023, p.50.
