Where Phuong Dang grew up, learning to write was one of the earliest and highly regarded lessons. ‹Handwriting reflects character›—a proverb that every child must remember when practicing writing. This means that just by looking at someone’s handwriting, you can discern their personality. If the handwriting is neat and clean, then undoubtedly the writer is orderly and straightforward, and vice versa. This concise proverb is enough to reflect the Vietnamese way of life through writing.

In this collection, Phuong—someone who was born and raised in Vietnam—seeks the origins of the script she grew up with and still uses every day. The texts are compiled from various sources and may still be incomplete, for which she asks for your understanding.

Finally, she introduces a typeface font that she designed—no one is writing (English) / ‹Nét chữ nết người› (Vietnamese)—as a result distilled from the sources she provided above combined with experiences from her own life. The two stylistic sets of the typeface embody the daily struggles and thoughts within herself. Between the concept of «everything must be refined, standardized, and beautiful» (like how she was taught to write in Vietnam as a child) and the idea that «anything can be right, life is a culmination of trials and experiences» (like the process of ‹playing around› with her own portrait). She found herself in a space of combination in which she herself is like a mix, a mix of everything.