Studio Presentations > SECTION I
A tangled dimension that is part of who I am as Kim Le, yes the Asian migrant who confronts you, ‘her otherness of being', ‘her over there' from an estranging and very public episode in the 20th century. Yes, a shared episode for so many, and a particular life-world that never goes away for me, one that I found cross over for many Australians who lost their ‘being' in Vietnam. Perhaps some who see my work can cry with me and share the painful struggle of the sounds, smells and those never-fading images, the constant struggle to adapt in the ‘now' when so much of what happened still walks with us. I am now settling in Australia and I live amongst you in a parallel life-world of interrupted normality. Yes, the privacy of Kim Le is still interrupted by the giant shadows of the B52s, the sirens and the urgent escape to the caves, these memories still press against my soul and that is why I make art.
