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The Water Chili Plant and Primitive
March 24, 2021
When I returned to the City after the Tet holiday, I noticed the Tet flower pots in the house were fading.
They were present in front of me and made me feel a sense of waste if I ignored this event.

So I shoot. This unintentionally makes sense when you save an investment in props - something I always need to lift in every photoshooting session.
I photographed from chrysanthemums, to dried chili plants, azaleas, cornflowers, and rice flakes. Each type of tree with each basic effect that I often use with my works.
I relax my mind, open the door to welcome guests entering the studio. And of course in this conversation I am the one who asks and listens.
I asked who you are, where are you from, what's wrong, memories? The dying guest characters, with some comical intangibility, I felt an answer — a response.

At the end of each conversation I am surprised and touched by the review of the images and messages from them. It could be a tough battle that the pepper plant went through to face death, Or the fictitious spiritual story of the corn plant as it passed through different reincarnations, ...


































Dat Duong (Chiron Duong)
1996, Vietnamese
Photographer.
(Fine art, Beauty, Fashion )