“Family Portrait” oil on wood, 13” diameter, 2020. Accordingly, "Family Portrait" depicts my personal family as zodiac animals in the Vietnamese tradition and framework. My parents are represented in the center as the monkey and tiger while my siblings and I and fellow grandchildren all surround them as a pig, a rat, a baby tiger, a dragon, and a horse, etc. The animals all manifest their own meanings and symbolisms in threaded ways that call for further attention toward each.