Volume IX  ·  Hà Nội Atelier
Cánh Gián
Twenty Layers · Polished by Hand
Lacquer Painting Journal · Issue Nº IX

Polished
from within.

Twenty layers of red-black sap-lacquer, ground back with charcoal water until the gold-leaf moon below begins to glow. Eggshell mosaic. Mother-of-pearl rain. Cinnabar lip at the edge of a Hanoi twilight.

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