tailieunhanh - A.C.I.D. by Bui Anh Phong

. by Bui Anh Phong – Some notes on a debut. Phong has regarded himself as “Teu”, a hick character from Vietnamese folklore. He feels like an idiot in the city life. In his eyes, everything is new, interesting, but also frightening. He feels himself a “navel of the universe” where everybody constantly looks at. Every move of his seems to be watched and judged by others. The gaze of others becomes his obsession. “Others”, however, are not personalities, but attitudes and, sometimes, challenges and threats. He wants to conform to others, but others are always strangers. His integration into the. | . by Bui Anh Phong Some notes on a debut. Phong has regarded himself as Teu a hick character from Vietnamese folklore. He feels like an idiot in the city life. In his eyes everything is new interesting but also frightening. He feels himself a navel of the universe where everybody constantly looks at. Every move of his seems to be watched and judged by others. The gaze of others becomes his obsession. Others however are not personalities but attitudes and sometimes challenges and threats. He wants to conform to others but others are always strangers. His integration into the new life therefore is a constant process of self-definition redefining himself and others. His mindset is swinging between the complexes of a person of attention and an outsider and he has to balance himself all the time by his strong will by his self-deception by his desire to be respected and sympathized and by his readiness to pay respect and offer sympathy to others. Phong is not Teu of course but he has lived and felt like Teu. It was an experience. Perhaps his looking back upon such an experience is the reason that urges him towards working as an artist. It is an inspiration an object of his work a resource for ideas and topical materials. by which he explores and expresses himself. This way of creation for him is a process of discovering symbols and metaphors of projecting abstract concepts and of experimenting with his inner world experiments imbued with poetical and philosophical .