Artists Thanh Thanh Hien and Quang Thang recently visited Xuan Hinh's 5,500m2 Mother Goddess Museum in Soc Son.
Located in Hien Ninh, Soc Son, a suburb of Hanoi, the Dao Mau Museum by artist Xuan Hinh is hidden under a lychee garden that is over 50 years old. The project impresses with the way it is hand-built with 3 Dao Mau towers from 5 million ancient roof tiles and 1 million ancient bricks, purchased from 500 households across the country.
Xuan Hinh gave the Mother Goddess Museum another name, Linh Tu - Remembering the Source of Water When Drinking. The artist explained that this name is understood as a sacred temple, a place to express gratitude to ancestors and homeland. That also reflects the core value of Mother Goddess worship, which is a heart that strives for goodness.
Visiting artist Xuan Hinh's house, Quang Thang and Thanh Thanh Hien had the opportunity to understand more about their colleague's design ideas. Thanh Thanh Hien unexpectedly received an offer from Xuan Hinh to sing the tuneHue LiteratureThe female artist happily sang in front of the Mother Goddess altar with a sweet Hue accent.
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Located in a 5,500m2 area surrounded by an ancient lychee garden, at the end of the land there is a pond, bricks were chosen as the main material of the project. Not only is it a familiar material, artist Xuan Hinh wishes to preserve the traces of the old abandoned brick kilns. This is also the most authentic and Vietnamese language to convey when building a project with spiritual elements.
As a nature lover, Xuan Hinh kept all the trees in the previous garden. Along the walking path, looking through the narrow gap in the majestic tower, you can see the lychee canopy.
“It is the architecture of solitude. Most of the time we are buried in daily struggles and architecture helps us reconnect with the serenity within ourselves, to dream and aspire for greater things,” shared architect Nguyen Ha, who is the main designer of the Mother Goddess Museum.
Some pictures of Xuan Hinh's Mother Goddess Museum