A woman in a pink floral áo dài stands in a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She holds up a black rectangular piece of art, which features several figures wearing traditional Vietnamese conical hats (nón lá), created using intricate shell inlay on a black background. She smiles and speaks, gesturing towards the artwork. She then turns and indicates a man sitting at a wooden workbench. The man, wearing a green polo shirt, is focused on working on a similar black art piece, carefully applying small, iridescent shell fragments to its surface. The workbench is cluttered with various tools, materials, and several other black artworks, some completed and some in progress. The workshop has a corrugated metal ceiling, white walls, and fluorescent lighting.