EXile Painting

Following the poem of Phan Nhien Hao from NEA.gov and Saigoneer.com , I responded by my painting. The poem is: A Guitarist in Exile This guitarist stretches his strings from one time zone to another, from the silt beds of the Mekong River to the fields of the Midwest. The sky where he now lives is often cloudy, the cows slaughter-ready. His songs are about love, the smell of a road after a tropical storm. He sings of exile, blizzards, and empty parking lots. His past is like a street musician faking blindness. His present is like a hot air balloon aloft and waiting to fall back to the earth. His future is just a TV in a nursing home losing its signal. He has nothing but music in this hard-of-hearing world. And this makes him feel as useless as those times during Sunday blackouts he would lie in a tiny room on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street naked and fanning himself in Saigon during the 1980s.   10.2011 Phan Nhien Hao

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:70.9 W x 47.2 H x 1.6 D in

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