Bản Chất || Essence, January 5, 2024. Watercolor painting with wax pencil.
"Bản Chất || Essence" is a watercolor painting of the bold assertion of the beauty in cultural synthesis, directly challenging the pressures of conformity. This piece embodies my Vietnamese-American dual heritage. The textured layers and the deliberate pop of red amidst monochrome chaos represent the complexity and individuality of one's identity. There is strength found in the fusion of histories and cultural and our mark on the world.