When he first travelled to the US in 1999, painter Pham Luan often stayed in New York City, in an apartment overlooking Central Park that belonged to Judith Hughes Day and her husband. The bustling streets below, the high-rise buildings shimmering in the early morning sunlight, and especially the pointed spire of a Protestant church on the horizon — all were anchored in Pham Luan’s memory. That resplendent recollection would later be immortalised in his painting 'Our View'.