The final destination of our travels in Northern Vietnam was Ha Nam. This town is the invisible place that we think of when we read folk tales. Grey mountains border this town. Boulders, rocks, stones, and pebbles stumble down from these mountains and the people build their houses and markets out of them.
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On a Friday night, some of my friends and I took the soft-seater 29 train ride from Saigon to Hanoi. On the train, we talked about things over bags of beef jerky and cuddle fish, kilos of grapefruit, cans of pasticcios, jars of pate, and dozens of boiled eggs. Vietnam is a beautiful […]
I went to Can Tho to attend the Fulbright Enrichment Seminar. It was a gathering of all seven of the Fulbrighters in Vietnam. We met at Can Tho University, a very large university in Vietnam that is famous for its agriculture department. In a conference room, we shared the progress of our […]
I went over to Bac Liem’s and received my first lesson. I arrived returning a book about some Vietnamese artists who were big time in the making of Vietnamese art history, Nguyen Gia Tri, Nguyen Sang, To Ngoc Van and Bui Xuan Phai.
I sat down and shared a cup of green tea with Bac […]
“One day you should come to my café, and I will show you a real Vietnamese coffee shop.”
The next day, I went.
“It is my dream to show artwork in my café because at cafes, people can relax, get a chance to enjoy art,” The told me as we rode on his motorbike.
We rode through a […]
“Do you read Chinese?” my uncle Chu Hung asked me one day. “Do you see those banners on the wall? One the left side, it says, ‘Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.” On the right side it says, ‘North, South, East, and West.’ The two signs have to go together because it creates […]
The Vietnamese have a dark soul, but everyone is French, and the world revolves around New York City.
I am lucky to have arrived in Vietnam on the week of a small French and Vietnamese photography festival. I had a conversation with one of the artists and he told me: “Our project is about a […]