As my work shares insight into personal life experiences, it also communicates the messages that have found their rhythms in the human experience to remind us that there is nothing new under the sun.

As a second-generation Vietnamese American, art has become an invaluable tool that has granted me the opportunity to live the refugee, immigrant experiences vicariously through the ones who arrived before me, allowing me to interpret these stories through my own ears, eyes and hands. With deep respect, I bind these inherited stories into our witnessing of history’s alliteration, of persecution and injustice, of mass exodus and the tribulations that we continue to face upon arrival, and of the anticipated opportunities that indeed await us on new horizons as we set our gaze upon home and promise.

My current work serves as an aperture into which I examine the stories of an enduring People who have been targeted worldwide, amidst an immigration and refugee crisis that has been a consistent humanitarian struggle throughout all of human history. Drawn from intimate experiences of heartache and triumph, of struggle and perseverance, and of loss and provision, my art practice strives to find comfort by searching for, and then sharing the discovered faith, fulfillment, and freedom that have fostered me/Us during these anguishing times.

Through the creative process, I learn to adopt the joys and the hardships that persist in these meandering liminal spaces wherein we usher what we’ve witnessed into history, as living history. I transcribe these true tales of triumph, that serve as reminders that out of tragedy is ever born the blessings that we might have never been able to predict could or would come.