Bright Water

Bright Water is an illustrated modern fairy tale, a mythopoetic, autofictional narrative. Part spirit memoir, part origin myth, Bright Water weaves personal, ancestral, and imagined histories through my queer and indigenous lens.

The book is illustrated with my off-the-canvas works, spanning ceramics, textiles, and sculpture, including three bodies of work: Cinderella Far East ceramics, Virgin Mermaid wearable art, and QUAI THAI sculptures. Bright Water is my salvaged stream of consciousness, the river of thoughts within me, and the meaning of my name…

For Someone who has no mother or father, I do have a name.

It was given to me by the song of the past—

Carried to me by the river,

Hà Minh.