Making Sunrise

Sunrise is the first piece I created in Hanoi. I intuitively started using blue and yellow, mohair wool I could find in a local shop. 

Punch needle is worked from the back, but only the front is usually seen—the back gets glued and hidden. But as I was working, the back was so nice and I wanted to find a way to keep it visible. So I thought, what if I don't glue the back this time and keep both sides visible?

That’s how the idea for my 2-in-1 artwork came to life.

I walked down a street in Hanoi lined with framing shops, explaining my vision again and again. Most of the shop owners declined, saying it couldn’t be done. After a while, I was ready to give up. But my partner convinced me to try just one more shop. Surprisingly the last shop said yes.

They took on the challenge and built a custom frame that reveals both sides of the artwork—two perspectives in one piece. What started as a near failure turned into something even more meaningful: not just the artwork itself, but the persistence and collaboration behind it.