2 months Vermont,3 weeks New York,6 days Los Angeles,2 days Boston,2 hours San Francisco, is enough I thought to have a quick sense of the country ,America but I realized It is not it is dreamy unclear ,and vague it is not complete .I had prepared myself for this before coming to America,but now I cannot escape this strange feeling.
SOUVENIR
Installation by Bui Cong Khanh |
my recollection of memories contain both happiness and sadness.One trip,shortly after awakering from a nap ,its memories have already faded far into the past.
The worries of the present and the promises of the future seem to occupy everything perhaps we will forget the feelings of the past. As a temporary solution,my way is like a spider,spinning its silk thread around its prey.I want to preserve the memory of the journey by enveloping the emotions of the past with many layers.They become sticky and somber,though each still smoudering but never completely extinguished.
This way ,when I am later hungry I can unwrap them and eat them slowly,day by day.
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Painting Violence with Heart
For Khanh, by Miriam
(Vermont studio center March-April,2005)
Buddhist Khanh naps in sun
Listening to mile-long ear phones.
Winks,but never runs
Away,rather challenges worlds a-grin,
Even facing train wreck death.
He can sketch cheap art vans
But draws bodies best
As arms and faces on the lam.
Listening loud to charming Amelie,
He exhibits without concern:
T-shirts of himself and family,
And of lost professors,burned.
Even death a cause for laughter,
For it is life his art is after.
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Exhibition at:
MAI's Gallery
3 A Ton Duc Thang St.,Dist.1
Ho Chi Minh City - Viet Nam
Opening reception: Friday June 03 - 2005
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Exhibition continues to June 30 - 2005
www.maisgallery.com
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