Project #9: The Walk - Mega-Me
Chapel Swig Computer Lab Football Field This school has a special place in my heart. Step by step, my walk gradually turned into a series...
Thesis Project #8: Hail
In our collaboration, we examined the question: In which situations do we self-actualize unsolicited support? To look into this topic, we...
Thesis Project #7: Nets & Clay
Exhibition Photos In this weeks project, I wanted to portray the tension in withholding my emotions. I used chickenwire to form the shape...
Thesis Project #6: Watercolor Paper & Chickenwire
For this week's project, I decided to take a step further with the idea of "nested emotions", and visualized such ideas in the form of a...
Thesis Project #5: Stocking and Ski Nets
For this week's thesis project, I made a cage that contains human-like body parts, many of which are escaping through the cage's holes....
Thesis Project #4: Chickenwire & Paper Mache
Final Piece At the Spring 2023 Senior Thesis Exhibit At the Winter 2023 Exhibit Close-up texture For this project, I created an...
Thesis Project #3: Photos with Burlap Mask
For this project, I explored how I hide my emotions when they are elevated. I am interested in how physical masks can portray this idea,...
Thesis Project #2: Hyperbolic Visualization
As part of family tradition, I grew up with constantly tangible pressure to succeed in my academics. Furthermore, I encounter the daily...
Thesis Project #1: Close Encounter
I grew up in Hanoi. Attending a public school in Vietnam, where merit-based education coerces kids to be at the top of their classes to...
Thesis Proposal
Describe the project you want to pursue in a paragraph or two, being as specific as possible. Refer to medium, scale, and thematic...
Project 9: Shelter
For this prompt titled "Shelter", I created a wave out of cardboard and nuts & bolts. Born in Vietnam, I lived under the comforts of my...
Project 8: Identity & Alter Ego Project
Piece #1 Piece #2 Piece #3 Unlike the expressive intonations of the Vietnamese language, I grew up in Hanoi with a culture of...
Project 7: Ritual (Performance)
Constant work and pressure results in my invention of coping mechanisms to reduce tiredness and boredom in my life: blinking my eyes,...
Project 6: Repair of Memory (Project 5 improvement)
For this week's prompt of Revisit, Repair, Revise, Reinvent, I chose to continue on my last installation for the prompt "Memory". To...
Project 5: Memory
Video of installation When I was young, my family also took a lot of photos on old-school digital cameras and printed them out as tiny...
Project 4: Crusader
Artwork Title: Who's Who? For this week's project - Crusader / Creating a activist artwork, I chose the topic of racism and racial bias,...
Project 3: Language
For this week's project with the prompt "Language", I chose to work on the ideas of "Lost in Translation" and "Untold Stories"....
Project 2: Extreme Attention
For this project, I chose to approach one of the ideas behind extreme attention - bringing attention to things that otherwise would often...
Project 1: Steal Like an Artist
For this first project, I created a 3d installation inspired by Bob Rauschenberg's Combines, Cindy Sherman's self inclusion technique,...