My work, first of all, is about a journey inward.
I don’t like to portray reality. What I prefer to do, by my own artworks, is to look for something I met in a dream, something I found accidentally at the corner of my heart. I try to paint, intuitively, a lyrical feelingor a metaphysical thought. For me, to paint is an attempt to catch up with something that is not only fragile, but also unknown. I discover and create my own soul at the same time. I recognize my innermost being through the colours and the figures on the canvas. Imitating the best known phrase by Descartes, I want to say : “I paint, therefore, I am”
The journey inward, therefore, is also a journey inward.
Nguyen Hung Trinh
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