For each human being, mother’s love is the most special, sacred and noble sentiment. In the sculpture art of Diem Phung Thi, the image of mother and children is always expressed clearly, simple and close. “Mother and Child” is the first statue of Diem Phung Thi that was purchased by the French State, and then placed in a children’s park. The success of the first statue to art lovers made her more confident and inspired to create  new statues.

“With the fear that my people will be exterminated and that in order to maintain them, do I not want to create stone blocks, to create many children of the world?… I repeatedly made the works such as “Mother and Children””. The mother in her sculpture always exudes a sacred sentiment with the Vietnamese soul. It is her deep love for her homeland. The statues about a mother holding a baby in her arms waiting for her husband or a mother waiting for her children…are very Vietnamese. The works on this topic is also her desire for peace for the homeland and for the world.

“ Michael Sandrel also told me: I see that they are very gentle and joyful, but for me they are also prayers; all are like your sculptural prayers”.