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With the Flower Plaids series, Tieu sources plastic flowers and presents them in frames, using traditional Vietnamese checkered textile as a backing. Questioning the hierarchy of value that’s imparted by social norms on such mundane objects, she also considers the originality of the forms as the artificial flowers never replicate nature exactly. The leaves, colors or proportions often diverge from reality, following the imagination of their producers to become fantastical daisies, lilies, or roses.