The Print 

2018 - 2021

Mirror, paint & reflections of trees

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In 2018, to execute the construction plan of  Thủ Thiêm 2 bridge in Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon, more than 100 century-old trees on Tôn Đức Thắng street were forced to be removed. Over the course of one week, trees of more than 100 years old were replaced for urbanization. I lived very close to the site during that time. Saddened with the news, with two other friends, we brought some wood-block printing tools to the construction site in an attempt to trace and document the remaining tree trunks from that controversial site clearance. 

 

Another setting - Đà Lạt city - is well-known for its greeneries. However, there remains a notorious issue of pine trees being illegally poisoned and cut, besides the city’s concurrent rising environmental problems. 

 

My installation consists of mirrors, paint and the reflections of trees in Đà Lạt. The traces on these mirrors were from the wood-block prints of the trees on Tôn Đức Thắng street. The mirrors act as an interval, communicating between the dead trees and the ones in threat. 

 

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