DACCHI DANG: My name is Dacchi Dang,
and I'm a visual artist,
and I do photography,
and I specialise in early photographic process,
and also I do a lot of  mix medium as well,
but it always starts with  photographic medium,
and sometimes then I will  mix two other medium
according to what  I need for my project.
Most of my work is  dealing with memory
and the diaspora experience.
And in the past many of my works
it is to look at how people
look at the notion of home
and especially diaspora people,
and how they actually create
that in the new environments,
but at the same time,
how to connect  the past and the present.

WHAT IMPACT DOES YOUR WORK HAVE ON YOUR AUDIENCE?

Many of my works
deal with, I mean,  a lot about culture memories
and traumas, and all that,
and many of my past work
working very,  very close with Vietnamese
and Chinese Diaspora community.
And I'm using the visual language
as the language which  I communicate with
the rest of the community,
and which is, I mean, is
I find most of the people... In my work is very, poetic
in some way as well.
And they have many different level.
I mean, you can look at aesthetic base,
or you can look at the conceptuals,
I mean, depending on how much are  you willing to investigate
through my work.
I give you an example.
I mean, one of  the major works, I mean,
the boat back in 2001
which is, I mean,
I actually create a life-size boat
of the Vietnamese refugee,
of their journey to  escape the country.
And at the gallery,
I mean, I actually built a life-size
which is, I mean, about 13  and half meter long,
and three and half meter high,
and people actually can walk  inside the boat, right?
To experience, I mean,  how does it feel
I mean, when you are inside a tiny boat.
I remember from the last days,
I mean, at that exhibitions
the gallery is open at 10:30,
and some of the Vietnamese community
actually they told us they queued up around kind of 9:30
waiting for the door to open.
And then rush into the gallery
and stand next to the boat
and have their picture done,
and they were very, very happy.
What happened is
to deal with the topics of traumas
and memories, and all that
sometimes is very, very difficult
to actually having verbally, right?
But having a visual
and so poetic,
and also have so many  different level
which is people don't  have to say much about it
they are just there to experience that moment.

WHAT DOES GROWTH LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?

I think it's a lot of possibility
and I hope for me to be able to continue
to share my visions
and my creativity
to the rest of  the Australian community,
and yes,
I mean, I got many, many projects I want to do,
and yeah, so it's very promising,
and I look forward to it.