About Me

I offer this work as a gesture of grief and grace—an honoring of what’s been lost, an acknowledgement of what is unresolvable, a quiet weaving together of what is broken in this world through the old language of magic, myth and story.

These fourteen mixed-media watercolor pieces are part of a long journey through pain and silence, shaped by my childhood spent largely in Asia, including many return visits to my mother’s homeland of Vietnam. I now live in the United States, but the memory of my past haunts me still.

I share this story under a chosen name—Phượng Weber —as both shield and offering. Phượng, the phoenix, speaks to rebirth. Weber, a Germanic name, honors the role of the weaver. Together, they form a name that resonates with my true heritages and the soul work required to shape it into form and allows me to speak freely while also safeguarding the dignity of those still entwined in the story.

This work is a reckoning with what was long kept hidden—a sorrow spun into story, made more bearable through its telling. What you see here are the early threads of a larger tale, still gestating in the quiet warmth of becoming.