Marking A New Chapter — “Outlandish Landscape” by Hoàng Anh 🦋
Art and Story have the power to form bridges — between worlds, cultures, and inner landscapes. ✨
This summer in Vietnam 🏡, before coming back to my other home in Europe, I acquired a piece that feels deeply symbolic of this chapter in my life as an entrepreneur, Vietnamese-French-American third-culture kid, coach, host, community builder, and young art collector:
🖼 “Outlandish Landscape
#04” by Vietnamese artist Hoàng Anh — watercolor on Dó paper, from his exhibition at salonwiking in Saigon.
Based in Dalat, Hoàng Anh creates dreamlike worlds where everyday Vietnamese symbols — like the humble red plastic chair — drift through surreal landscapes, exploring memory, belonging, and the space between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
At first glance, it’s serene — tall pines, layered greens, a distant island.
But then you notice the 10 red plastic chairs — a staple of Vietnamese street life — quietly inhabiting this o...