How amazing? And just in time for Spring! This portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is made out of 2,000 dyed carnations by Hong Yi. I think carnations are seriously the underdog of flowers – no one really likes them (or wants them), but hey, when you use them in such artful way, they become the star of the show!

Have you tried dyeing carnations? I haven’t done it since I was in elementary school, but I think I might give it a go and make a little installation of my own at home!

IMAGES: Hong Yi, Via My Modern Met