Le Minh Chau (born in 1991, living in HCM) is a painter infected with Agent Orange. He is well known through the documentary Chau, Beyond the Lines by an American female director. This film also entered the top 5 nominations for best documentary at the 2016 Oscars.
Painter Le Minh Chau (right). Photo: Internet
After that success, Nguyen Minh Chau also appeared in a number of other programs and was an inspiration with a story that transcended his destiny. If ordinary people paint by hand, Le Minh Chau is less fortunate, with his hands contorted due to infection, he has to control the brush entirely with his mouth.
However, with great passion, Le Minh Chau has never given up on her dream of becoming a painter despite facing many difficulties during her practice. He said, after nearly 3 years of sharpening, having a broken brush in his mouth, having to swallow ink often, now all his efforts have paid off.
Chau and the star with the name of the documentary film that brought him to the world (Photo taken at the Hollywood Walk of Fame).
Up to now, the total number of paintings he has painted is over 5,000 paintings, of which more than 100 paintings are displayed at international galleries in the US, Canada, France, and Japan, but all are sold out. after that.
In addition to teaching drawing for children, Le Minh Chau also paints at auction to raise funds for charity to help those in difficult circumstances like himself. From empty hands, Chau is able to support himself, is the owner of his own cafe and also travels often to find new creative ideas.
The decision to get a tattoo is one of the most daring and surprising decisions of artist Le Minh Chau (Photo: Internet).
Recently, Le Minh Chau once again surprised many people interested in him by his decision to get a tattoo. Because for an ordinary person, it is difficult to endure the pain of a few hours of tattooing, but for someone with a small and weak body, like him is really a challenge.
According to the tattoo artist this time, with the idea of a large tattoo and performed for many hours on this small artist, it is definitely necessary to numb the area.
The person he trusted to give this body was a pair of famous tattoo artists in Saigon, Pham Mai and Dang Vinh (Photo: Tiin)
In addition, Le Minh Chau shared that tattooing is also a personal project that he has cherished for a long time but now has the opportunity to implement. In addition to his dream of becoming a painter, he also has another dream of getting a full body tattoo. For Chau, he wants to experience the process of creating a tattoo for himself because tattooing is also a part of painting.
“Tattooing is art, instead of drawing on paper, tattooing on people. Painting is actually very close to tattooing, I want pure Vietnamese motifs to be painted on the body so that the whole world can admire this art,” he confided.
Instead of drawing on paper, Le Minh Chau wants to put Vietnamese culture on his body for the whole world to admire. His finished work (Image: Tiin)
However, this tattoo is not the first time, he previously had a small tattoo when he participated in the 2016 documentary film.
That first tattoo did not use anesthesia, the feeling of having to brace yourself to experience the pain is very different from holding a brush to paint. In this tattoo, Chau is not afraid or worried because she trusts the tattoo artist for her.
According to Pham Mai’s share, it is possible that the little artist is very weak, who only has skin and bones, so getting a tattoo will cause Chau to suffer a lot more pain than normal people. Everyone is happy when the tattoo is completed, some are happy because they can accomplish what they cherish, others are happy that the process went smoothly.
The cost of a full body tattoo for Chau is supported by tattoo artists. As revealed, the artist had previously given the tattooed couple a self-portrait.
Of course, Chau is not afraid of others commenting or talking about him after he has tattooed himself. The artist confided: “Art is madness, I tattooed with good intentions, so that no one discriminates or derides tattoos as a tiger ward.”
Chau’s completed tattoo (Photo: Internet).
Not only tattooing, Le Minh Chau used to ski and celebrate the New Year in Vermont (USA). Skiing here is not easy for ordinary people, for people with disabilities, it requires much more will and energy. With more than 20 years from realizing the dream to the current success, Le Minh Chau hopes her story will spread and be an inspiration to many people.
Chau’s previous tattoo on the nape of his neck is still the name of the documentary film of his life (Photo: Internet).
