How to Forgive

How to Forgive, 2025
Bà Ngoại’s thread (Grandmother), Dầu khuynh diệp (Eucaplyptus oil) as gifted by my mother-in-law Dì Ba, and graphite encased in wooden light box built and engineered by artist, 12 x 12”. Created with the support of Marianna Oberg Foundation for Spiritual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.

The title does not offer a solution on how to forgive, but rather, considers the manner in which one can proceed toward offering more forgiveness, and proceeding generously.

Not enough to give generously, but to give with a generous heart. From the same vine, perhaps true forgiveness is offered whether or not the receiver asks for it.

This work serves as both a beseeching of forgiveness, and in doing so, also makes tender the heart toward offering forgiveness more generously.

What is spiritual art? We at MOFSA have been reflecting on this question for quite a while. To begin, it is impossible to find a universal definition of spiritual, because the term has become so overloaded. For this discussion, perhaps we can simply agree that to see from a spiritual perspective is to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.