In this city being rapidly transformed by the multi- faceted process of globalisation. I have discovered entirely different justification and motivation for producing art.

 

Candy-coated Sidewalks conceptually illustrates the fast-paced urban landscape and life of Ho Chi Minh City being transformed by the multi-faceted process of globalisation.
This bright vivid installation expresses familiar designs that have the universal intuitive appeal of Pop culture. The work is an attempt to intensively examine the routines of daily life in this urban city – repetitive mapping, speed, impulse and consumer choice. It captures the feeling of standing on a corner and seeing the blurred motion of thou-sands of moving objects in the streets. It reflects people’s experiences of shapes and colours while pas-sing advertising billboards and consumer goods – abstract colours bombard the retina as shapes bleed into the consciousness with a delight and giddiness one remembers from child-hood.

The artwork also uses nature in an attempt to illustrate part of the city’s development. It reveals nature as a highly self-aware, a stylised representation of itself whilst being imported into urban public places. The use of unnatural materials in the depiction of natural forms results in an artificial beauty. This physical and metaphorical artificiality drags nature into an urban context in which it can be understood.