Saeko Ando
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The Artitst
Saeko Ando, a Japanese contemporary artist – lacquerist, merges traditional Vietnamese lacquer-craft skills and son mai painting techniques learned from past generations of lacquer masters with original methods she developed over decades of experimenting with Vietnam’s natural lacquer.
Saeko’s artworks seek to give physical form to the process of utsuroi, the impermanence of all things and the transience of Nature, by harnessing Vietnamese natural lacquer’s characteristic for change over time.
