"Camouflage of Thought": The Encounter Between Le Ba Dang's Legacy and an Australian Caricaturist

Camouflage of Thought (Saigon Books and Fine Arts Publishing House) by author TTG is a contemporary literary philosophy work with more than 200 artworks by famous painter Le Ba Dang and illustrations by Australian caricaturist Mikko.

In the form of fragmentary thoughts, The Camouflage of Thought offers concise, sharp, and strongly critical reflections on modern society, language, the ego, and personal identity. The publication is like a window opening onto the vast ideological world of the main work - a world full of questions about the Ego - Time - Space, and Life.

"The Camouflage of Thought" is an invitation to those who think deeply, without imposition or guidance.

The work is designed as an “intellectual provocation,” encouraging readers to question familiar stereotypes while opening up existential reflections around identity, anonymity, and humanity in an age of information overload, an age where the self is magnified.

The meditations in the book were formed in the author's multifaceted journey of thought and life, creating a multi-layered, global ideological material that is not filtered through any fixed ideology.

Besides its ideological value, The Camouflage of Thought is also a collectible work of art. The publication is a perfect combination of the painting by Le Ba Dang and the original illustration by Mikko (a famous Australian caricaturist, known for his distinctive medieval art style for more than two decades).

This combination creates a rare dialogue between text and image, taking the book beyond the boundary of reading and viewing, becoming a complete aesthetic experience. In the visual space of the book, artist Le Ba Dang appears as a mainstream stream of thought, where each dot and each blank space in the simplified form opens up unnamed realms of thought. His radical simplification and free spirit are not a reduction of form but a way of liberating thought, operating at its own rhythm, not bound by symbols or structures.

Author TTG, through his ideological slices, perceives that rhythm as a spiritual emotional field, where knowledge, intuition and emotions converge. Le Ba Dang's works of art do not exist through simulation or illustration but penetrate deeply into ideas, turning words into "vivid gaps" - where ideas spontaneously arise, where thinking and emotions harmonize in a continuous internal rhythm.

The Camouflage of Thought is also a dialogue between thought and art, a rare reading and viewing experience in Vietnamese publishing. With its philosophical depth, sharp criticality and high artistic value, the work deserves to be on the bookshelf of readers who love philosophy, art and timeless thoughts.

QUYNH YEN

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