Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural
Miles-long ceramic tile wall along a river dike, depicting centuries of history in a Guinness-record mosaic.
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This guide to the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural follows journalist Nguyen Thu Thuy, who looked at a graffiti-scrawled flood wall along the Red River every day on her commute and pitched an unlikely fix in 2007: cover it in broken tile fired in the porcelain village of Bat Trang. You'll hear how she won funding from the Ford Foundation and assembled a small arts group, and how artists from ten countries worked alongside local craftsmen and hundreds of children pressing tiny tiles into the wall for three years. It traces the project through Hanoi's millennium celebrations toward the moment inspectors arrived to measure what had been built.
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