Dinh Thi Tham Poong’s (b.1970) intricate, vivid paintings reflect her emotional ties to her childhood home in a mountainous region of nothern Vietnam.

The daughter of parents from two Vietnamese minorities (her father is H’Moung and mother is Thai), her paintings depict her impressions of the interrelashionship between humans and the natural world she first experienced growing up in her homeland.

Poong’s imaginative work conveys her feelings that all living species are intertwined and her concerns that modern life may adversely affect that relashinship.