In this intimate video and sound collage, Tran offers a meditation on loss, memory, and the unseen threads that connect us to those who have passed. The work centers on an audio recording captured at the hospital, in which Tran’s mother recounts her memories of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The overlaid video footage juxtaposes fleeting moments of her mother’s cooking with those same dishes encountered in Vietnam years later. Together, the audio and video trace an evolving relationship with grief while witnessing a drawn-out journey through illness. Rather than speak directly about their feelings, Tran and her mother found a shared language through food. These everyday moments become fleeting and luminous portals into a world where love is felt as much in absence as in presence.

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, April 29, 2025, this work becomes a ritual of remembrance—not only for those lost in personal memory, but for the collective grief born from state violence. As part of the closing ceremony, Tran offered cups of soup to honor the lives of innocent civilians in Gaza, drawing a line of solidarity between the Vietnamese and Palestinian struggles against imperialism, displacement, and erasure.