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“I began my spiritual journey for ultimate truth when I was born to a devout Buddhist Laywoman in Saigon in 1972 and at the age of six my mother gave me to the Buddha.
My mother passed away when I was sixteen years old and I was of age to be conscripted into the war between Vietnam and Cambodia. I escaped in the bottom of a fishing boat to a refugee camp in Thailand without the rest of my six siblings and then eventually made it to the United States where I studied photography primarily because I couldn’t speak English and communication through imagery was easier for me.
Through my photography, I continued my search for ultimate truth as a way to stay close to the humble and giving woman that nurtured and guided me along this sacred path from the moment I was born.
Three years ago, I began photographically exploring the Buddhist idea of detachment in relationship to individual identity and perception of other. I embarked on an ongoing meditative series of photographs of the back of Monk's and Nun's heads in Asia. By detaching from a person looks and abstracting his or her presence to the shapes and patterns of a shown head. I wanted to show the ultimate truth that we are essentially all the same and therefore should not judge others by our differences.”