La Truciolara
Established Member
Binh Pho (pronounce Bin Fo), a well know Vietnamese artist, was in France last week during which some of us where meeting to exchange experience and points of view.
Binh discovered wood turning some years ago and soon realized the limits of traditional woodturning. He kept turning long and thin vases (never thicker than 1 or 1,5 mm) as he likes to cut part of the wood with a dentist drill. He paints with an air brush with a flabbergasting precision, and shades part of his work with a soldering machine with very fine blades.
Besides his art, Binh is a person with a very developed sense of humor. This allowed him to survive years of imprisonment and torture by the North Vietnamese prior to successfully escape to the US. He now leaves in Chicago.
Binh discovered wood turning some years ago and soon realized the limits of traditional woodturning. He kept turning long and thin vases (never thicker than 1 or 1,5 mm) as he likes to cut part of the wood with a dentist drill. He paints with an air brush with a flabbergasting precision, and shades part of his work with a soldering machine with very fine blades.
Besides his art, Binh is a person with a very developed sense of humor. This allowed him to survive years of imprisonment and torture by the North Vietnamese prior to successfully escape to the US. He now leaves in Chicago.
