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      Father’s Rose








      Father’s Rose, 2025
      Acrylic & soil pigment on paper in hand-carved wooden frame
      23.8 x 36 cm









      This belongs to the Part 1 of on-going painting series ‘As Roots to Trees, as Sea to Streams’.  The series title came from the proverb ‘Như cây có cội, như sông có nguồn’, implying the Vietnamese tradition of memorizing one’s ancestors and lineage.