Nguyen
Minh
Uyen
Across Vietnam
The same longing to connect art with identity led me to establish Across Vietnam, a creative media project reimagining Vietnamese heritage through youthful vision. With a team of five editors, illustrators, and writers, we published a magazine that captured the textures of Vietnam, from the scent of morning incense to the rhythm of a fisherman’s oar. We also hosted workshops that brought students together to paint, write, and speak about their hometowns, bridging culture with curiosity. Watching them rediscover the beauty of what they had always known, their own country, was one of the most profound moments of my artistic life.
Through these projects, I came to understand that art’s truest power lies not in creation, but in communion. When a painting inspires a conversation, when a workshop sparks belonging, when a project brings forgotten traditions back to life, art transcends itself. It becomes a gesture of empathy, a shared rhythm of understanding.
I no longer see art as something that hangs on walls. It lives in the hands that create it, the eyes that meet it, and the spaces that hold its silence. To connect through art is to trust that every color we offer will find its way into someone else’s heart, quietly, naturally, like light moving across a canvas.
