SOUL OF NATURE

In "D’âme nature," Tay Nguyen composes a portrait through a mirror of water. Only the hand appears clearly, while the face and body are only reflections, floating and fragile, amidst flowers drifting on the surface. Here, water becomes a poetic screen, both revealing and concealing, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination.

This pictorial arrangement makes the work a meditation on perception, identity, and transience. The reflection, by nature ephemeral and unstable, evokes the fragility of existence, but also the depth of the soul, which is impossible to fully grasp. Through the use of silk and watercolor, Tay Nguyen reinforces this impression of floating, inscribing his art in a Vietnamese tradition of tranh lụa, which he transforms here into a space of modern contemplation.