Walking around the back alleys, one can find hidden treasures made of metal. These window designs and motifs borrow their styles from European and Oriental origins. The journey began by discovering & documenting them. Each grill was photographed, the exact address noted & then turned into motifs.

Old Vietnamese motifs deserve a place in the future. Though rooted in the past, these window patterns feel distinctly modern—almost futuristic. Reimagined as robots and flying machines, they became the foundation for a series of ethereal sculptures that blur the line between tradition and imagination.

'The Rise of the Vietnamese Robots- book is a collection of patterns reimagined as robots that act like maps of the city. One can scroll through the artworks in the book, and the illustrations show exactly where the patterns came from

Each of the illustrations in the book was turned into a magnetized robot figure, modeled from individual blocks of wood. Each block was fitted with magnets and painted using traditional Vietnamese lacquering, giving the sculptures a high-gloss finish. The window patterns from the illustrations were silk-screened onto each sculpture

This is the rise of the eclectic relics from beyond time.

Their forgotten past, now makes a comeback.

This is their place in our future.

This is the rise of the Vietnamese robots.