[5] Binh Pho arrived in the United States on May 7, 1979, and initially focused on higher education, receiving a bachelor's degree in electronics in 1982.
[7] An early breakthrough in Pho's work was meeting the Canadian woodturner Frank Sudol at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
In the book, curator and author Kevin Wallace shared Binh Pho's life story, Vietnamese history and philosophy.
[11] For Pho, part of the attraction of working with wood was the poetic similarity he saw between trees and human beings and he approached the material with reverence.
[17] In 2012, Binh Pho again collaborated with Kevin Wallace on Shadow of The Turning, referred to by art critic David M. Fry as “a visual and literary amalgam that was audacious in almost every way”.
[23] The book and museum exhibition was an exploration of art, myth and philosophy, drawing upon diverse genres and media to bring the viewer into a fascinating literary adventure.
[26] The structure of the exhibition and its individual works suggested the enduring importance of architecture to Pho, who studied the subject in college in Vietnam.