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In Little Saigons across the US, Vietnamese Americans have embedded the memories of cultural heroes into street names and replicated landmarks like Chợ Bến Thành into local grocery stores. In this collage, I layer rectangular, transparent strips of Little Saigons in Houston and Santa Ana over a 1960s map of old Sài Gòn. Memories of a former hometown reveal themselves in the making, or even rebuilding, of the new hometown. I contemplate what quê hương means collectively to the diaspora, made of communities geographically separate yet emotionally bound in the making of Little Saigons.
Cindy Anh Thư Nguyễn is an environmental educator and artist. She is a second-gen Vietnamese American born and raised on Karankawa, Atakapa, and Bidais land (Houston, Texas). Cindy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Studio Art and Psychology. Her work takes the form of drawings, paintings, and collages that narrate her ongoing journey of reclaiming her connections to land, history, and heritage. As an educator, Cindy works to develop educational programs that bridge language barriers between youth and elders and bring healing and understanding within the Vietnamese American community.