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Why this website
Comet's explanation: Art has a unique way of telling stories without words. The paintings of Dzu Do invite viewers into a world shaped by personal history, emigration, and the journey of life itself. Through abstract forms and vibrant colors, these works reveal emotions and experiences that go beyond the visible. Whether you're an art enthusiast, someone exploring abstract expressionism for the first time, or simply curious about the intersection of personal narrative and vi
Nov 12


Viva New York
A triumph for New England Liberal Arts education. I went to Bowdoin once to cover an American Football game for Amherst College newspaper. Beautiful campus but super cold in winter and all the way up North. Han also went there. Her favorite food there were lobster rolls. My best friend from freshman year was from there. No surprise that his wife is an Artist, his mother is a Great movie director and his father is an intellectual so Mamdani is all about the Real conn
Nov 6


Painters I Love
I am thinking of Gorky and the freedom that he eventually gave to painters while endured deep personal pains. I love Cezanne's brush strokes in the bathers . It took a lifetime for him to find himself so me too. Only if I could paint w Matisse's spirits of joy and happiness . Amherst gave me $1000 the summer between junior and senior year to draw the figurative sculptures at the Hirshorn museum. Looking at Degas' the dancers I realized that to truly model how skins sit o
Oct 31


Why I blog
To share my joy, meaning and purpose of creating real 3-D space on a flat pictorial surface w colors forms & movements and putting my physical body in space in Nature on land and/or in water in case some day my children and recently born niece might be interested as well as anyone else. The Buddhist's devotional path that I was raised by my mother in Viet Nam had no concept of sharing similar to the engagement path until I learned from Thầy that intentional sharing can reduc
Oct 20


Why I paint
I finally found a place where I can just sit to watch the sky water air and land merging as one so I can just breathe and watch my brush releasing the right colors that reflect how I feel so I could just be and be one as well 🤗
Oct 17


Why I journal
Alien intelligence (not Artificial) is able to explain clearly of my painting intention. Why is it ok for AI to create the business transactions that I need during the day but not to reveal my painting intention? Two sides of the same coin. When I first read Journal De EUGÈNE DELACROIX I thought journaling might help me paint as I was leaving my East Coast Trees . The intention is to have a quick short writing style to get to the point quickly so I could know what to paint
Sep 15


Walking on the home path
Today I finally got to walk on my home path. A year and a half. How did Frank know? Sometimes it takes everything to work seamlessly...
Dec 7, 2024


A Place to Paint
It took me 9 months before I could find a place similar to Central Park where I first learned to paint. Instead of coming via subway...
Apr 25, 2024
Liberation of the physical
For a moment tonight I felt the possibility of swimming approximating painting as supposed to the other way around of painting...
Mar 5, 2024


A Journey That Knows No End
Nature is now my teacher. It tells me where I need to be. I am its embodiment
Jan 4, 2024


Finding joy, meaning & purpose
I know the work is just starting. I long for time to just let the brush touches the surface w colors, forms, intention and then let it...
Nov 19, 2023


A very deep conversation
The waves were relentless today. Antony hung back I looked over and knew that he was there because of me and I was glad. In technical...
Oct 22, 2023


Problems to solve
I never knew how foggy SD could get until I took a day off from work since landed. But this is what I learned winter means out here. I...
Oct 19, 2023
Why I swim?
From the Powerhouse park above Del Mar beach I could see the surfers and sun worshippers dotting below in the water enjoying the last...
Sep 24, 2023


Frank
There is no one I love more than Frank. In the refugee camp Indian Town Gap PA, when I first learned to ride my bike and gained my...
Apr 17, 2023


A Journey Unto Self
Ines could have given me her latest work and I would cherish and try to reach the same standard. But as my Dearest friend she, like...
Apr 4, 2023


Next Journey
I sat in my darkened car outside of Lifetime Fitness. It was almost 9 PM EST. The high school swimmers were almost done. I dreaded...
Apr 1, 2023


Finding Unity
Holy is that which makes us Whole Why abstraction? My 2009 Toyota Highlander is approaching 200K miles. I gives its TLC w premium gas and oil and it gives me back the best perfornance on the road. On roadless travel, returning this rental car there will be no regrets. All the separate parts would finally meet. We are one after all. Paintings on a wall are just witnesses for a point in time. Expressing the inexpressible in an instance is why abstraction is needed. The sear
Mar 30, 2023


Finding Life Force
Swimming more than painting right now. The regular swimming cadence to find the same rhythm and sensation as the marks. Just have to be...
Mar 29, 2023


Metrics
Every time I finish a workout, I open this app Athlytic on my iPhone to find my heart still beating. The clock is ticking but not now. My...
Mar 18, 2023
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