Artist's Statement

I was born pure and free with the feeling that life was tamed by me. I sowed laughter into the crease of time and decided my own fate.

But time was forcing me to change and step into a new stage of life. I became an adult with the strong voice of a man. Now I know what it is to need, to hate, to love and to rage..... the mixture of sin and innocence.

From inside myself I hear the demands and the shouting, making me feel stifled and trapped. I also hear the praying, the apologizing and the begging for forgiveness.

Is this everything? Is everything fixed? Is there no meaning? No escape?

No, for sometimes when im searching for the meaning of living there is a presence.

I tell myself to be still and quiet so that i may listen and feel.

There's something stirring inside me, I can feel my emotions moving.

The sins inside can be released.

There is sin and purity, with just a thin line in between.

Nguyen Van Phuc
January 2006