This is the main piece of work I produced last year on my foundation. Last year, the idea was about the struggle and journey from the vietnam war from my parents generation to reach the UK or any other country. Ideas of war migrants crossing vast expanses of water to reach safe land really intrigued me. I was really interested too in the methods of mark making and not leaving a permanent stained brushstroke (like you would on a painting). I wanted something in motion/ in development which could be easily moved or in flux between stillness and movement. I kind of liked that looseness but now looking back it could be seen as quite a fragile thing. The temporarility of the mark is quite interesting to me now and is definitely someting I want to push and make more evident- I guess this is because I have been feeling like this now, especially surrounding ideas of identity, culture and 'ethnicity'. Its all so confusing. Anyways when making this piece I was looking at An My Le, a vietnamese landscape photographer (her work is amazing), and so I was really looking at movement in land, rice paddies, and how land and sea could merge together.
Currently on 1st year at chelsea I've been in very interesting seminars based on art in asia and diaspora artists. Now looking back at the work it definitely is about the huge diaspora movement from Vietnam because of the war, and the fragile movement between homelands. I guess this piece was made for me to understand more about my heritage and past history of my parents generation as I was born in London and didn't really know that much about the Vietnam war. I hope from probing and questioning this area more, I can then develop into understanding where I fit into things and question my own identity and where this generation is going.
All exciting, I'll be making more work to upload soon..will probably upload random scatterings of ideas and observations til then x
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