Vietnam calligraphy

This is Nguyen Quang Thang, a Vietnamese artist, scholar and calligrapher who visited Mass College of Art this past week.  He showed us several types of old style Vietnamese calligraphy.  The character based writing of Vietnam was romanized during the French colonial period.  His study has helped preserve the calligraphy and at the same time modernized it.

He is creating an image of my name--or an iteration of my name.  Gail=gale=wind.

Our future travel plans include a trip to Vietnam.
More on that later...