A green mountains school
short film
2022
A green mountains school is my last autobiographical work reflecting on a fraught coming-of-age in a foreign landscape. By way of rebuilding a world and reenacting my stories from within it, I seek to reconcile with past naiveties and trauma.

Film stills:
In the Ebb and Flow
photobooks
2014-2024
In the Ebb and Flow is a self-narrative photobook project, reflecting on the acts of recording, editing, and narrating one’s life through photography.

These images are selected from the 03 books of the project, taken over six years of my adolescence, moving between the United States and Vietnam. They are documents of myself, and of the liminal spaces and people that shaped my lives.

In book-making, these photographs enable me to reflect and share my emotional growth, and overcoming of uprootedness.
 


With any luck, the first three books will be self-published in 2024.
Hey, you are here
installation
2020
The installation is a recreated dormitory room, with walls, a window, a desk, and a single raised bed, all made from images imprinted onto transparent tape. In the middle of the room, hangs a heavy collage built from mostly screenshots - fragments of long distance relationships that convey suspensions in time and space only possible in our digital world. Every sentence of these vulnerable conversations remain legible, inviting peering through, laying bare the reality of a life lived in between temporary spaces. 

Installed at The Hummingbird Cafe in Saigon, 2020.
Medium: Collage of images and screenshots transferred onto transparent tape
Dimensions: 370 cm x 210 cm