Born and raised during war time of country, Diem Phung Thi artist understood the  pain of the war left behind for the country and every Vietnamese person, from poor rural areas to urban areas. The artist told that: “I still remembered as clearly as it happened yesterday, the image of a young woman, hungry and thirsty, wandered on the pavement was withering in front of me. One morning, I found that the girl had died, curling up. One of her arms still held the baby who was still alive. The baby’s face was full of  tears”. Although living far away from her motherland, Diem Phung Thi always suffers from nostalgia and pain of the homeland caused by the war. “The pictures of bombs and bullets, the burnt villages, the tortures and death were accounted and appeared every day in the media like the bread we eat every day. How can we restrain from our fury and our rebellion in front of these cruel actions when we are human beings; we are Vietnamese. We felt the anguish as it was in our blood and our flesh”. The painful images caused by the war inspired Diem Phung Thi created artworks with the theme of the war such as: “ A life”, “ My house in war time”, “The ones who never return”, “Ball-bomb and the mother”,  “Mourning”

Through figurative sculptures, modules, blocks, Diem Phung Thi artist desires to condemn the utter meaninglessness of war which is very fierce, painful and full of loss; as well as to honor and commemorate those who have sacrificed for the peace of Vietnamese nation.