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Hom Nguyen // Moondancer’s Love

by Lorin Drexler · May 12, 2023

Hom Nguyen – Galerie Perahia – Featured Artist

Moondancer’s Love — Chapter I

(Inspired by original manuscript from: https://www.instagram.com/poetic.wolf__/)

beyond the moon
she's posed
nude
submerged
dripping
scribbled in lines
the creation of many lovers

white lines—black background 

thrashed in 
pencils
brushes
blemish
scars within scars within
the universe knows her dream

love ruptures—black background

in this narrative
the dream works
one chases the other
until they both give in
because they know
it's more real than the 
empty chases
she sings at 
with blood arrows

it washes easy
white lines—white canvas

sometimes the bird 
forgets whom to love
it finds the most wounded
pigeon pretending dove
knowing it can't fly with her
	wings clipped
	replaced with paper

all the dead birds float
black lines—black background

love is not equal
but it is fair
like a boat
unsteady as it floats
moments before splitting...
the storm then thrashes
and swallows everything
breaking what hasn't yet
birdpaperboatdream
all of it

she sings not for them
but at them
howling at the moon
i sing for her
as they shut their
frightened eyes
tails as heads 
chasing themselves
barely there
as she stencils them in
their dreams or hers
in the burning
majesty of theirs

our dreams of each other:
white—black—white—no background

and me
holding my petals to the sky
on this pale night
under her rainbow moon
am invisible
like she
like us
blinded by dripping doves
by what does not serve us
because the world is cruel
and we pity what's broken

we are hidden lovers
like the sky
oh the sky
filled with enchantment
with endless possibility
yet nowhere to catch
but back from where 
we came

oh yes
i know her 
and my love is
truer than the rest
but love knows to fail
so we dream
both 
as one
invisibly
clipping our wings
before the sun dies
to make new ones

by LORIN DREXLER


Featured Artist – Hom Nguyen

https://www.hom-nguyen.com
https://www.galerieperahia.com

Hom Nguyen is a Franco-Vietnamese artist born in 1972. He lives and works in Paris. Hom Nguyen’s style, in its connection with expressionism, speaks to everyone, with immediacy. His unique approach vibrates with contained vivacity revealing a connection to Western culture – totally free, without boundaries, leading him towards other traditions like Asian art and philosophy, calligraphy, and Chan Buddhism. 

The artist’s work is a matter of existential commitment. It keeps a record of the ordeals experienced. It tells the truth, revealing it more extensively, and with deeper intensity. Hom Nguyen’s art merges the visible with the invisible, intimate whims with fleeting dreams. In perpetual movement, incessantly renewing themselves, constantly experimenting with different mediums, Hom Nguyen’s lines give form to, and simultaneously disfigure, the image emerging from a magma of overlapping tangles and spider-like superimpositions. 

Between imprint and dissolution, temporary and eternal, Hom Nguyen’s style is particularly sensitive to the human values he embodies and conveys: a sentiment of appeasement, respect, and communion. Values which, for him, are the foundation of all art, like a path that links one human being to another, and all of us to each other. 


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