When I was ten years old I was always overwhelmed by the sight of a vast field immersed in golden twilight. That image has stayed with me obsessively shaping the aesthetic perspective I continue to pursue a beauty that exists in stillness yet also within chaos.
For this collection I draw inspiration from La Moyenne Rรฉgion a lacquer painting by the artists Nguyen Tien Chung and Hoang Tich Chu which portrays a Vietnam that no longer exists. I seek to reinterpret those vanished fields not merely in their simplicity and rustic charm but in their splendor brilliance and overwhelming sense of luxury.
Created with traditional Vietnamese lacquer techniques the painting captures a field submerged in a luminous sunset. The collection explores this work from panoramic vision to the finest detail from the clarity of open sky to the depth of twilight. Sophisticated techniques such as three dimensional bonding are employed to evoke the rugged texture of rocky massifs. Fabric surfaces are encrusted stamped and pressed to resemble raw pieces of gilded lacquer.
Each feather is delicately inlaid with gold. Young rice branches crops and winding vines are meticulously handcrafted. Entire landscapes of rice fields are composed from more than fourteen types of fabric and over twenty varieties of thread.
Through these intricate techniques the collection portrays a Vietnam that is peaceful prosperous and enduring in its beauty.
