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Image:
7.50" x 10.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 15.50"
Reminisce Framed Print
by Thu Nguyen
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Reminisce framed print by Thu Nguyen. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Reminisce, oil and 24 kt gold leaf on canvas, 30 x 40 inches... more
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Artist's Description
"Reminisce", oil and 24 kt gold leaf on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
April 1975: Everyone knows the communists will overrun Saigon, but no one expected it to happen so fast. Over the last month, the sound of gunfire and explosions have slowly increased in frequency and force. We are so used to it that it has become a sort of background noise no one pays any attention to. Despite this, I remember waking on April 30th, alarmed at how close the sound of gun-fire and explosions was to our neighborhood. The city was in chaos, dark smoke blanketed the horizon as people ran with whatever belongings they could carry. But as I watched it seemed that very few had any idea of where to go. My family and I hurriedly packed some clothes and fled to a friend's house in another part of the city called Cho-Lon which was safer. We could no longer stay in our home because it was near an army camp and therefore dangerous. My father was not with us because he and my mother had separated years earlier. A...
About Thu Nguyen
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Being very shy, I spent much of my childhood hiding away upstairs painting, instead of playing with other children. My first brush with success was a Best of Show prize at the 1974 children's exhibition in Saigon sponsored by UNICEF. In 1975 Saigon fell and in the resulting confusion I was separated from my parents. I ended up in a refuge camp near Hong Kong for a year prior to immigrating to the United States as an orphan. After one very snowy and cold winter in Pennsylvania, I went to Los Angeles to stay with some relatives. During my high school years, I earned extra money doing fashion modeling work in the garment district and upon graduation started on the pre-med program in college. During this...
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