Ing’s Street Art “My Little Red Shoes”, “Elephant Bath” and
“In the Midst of Troubles, I Seek Peace”
Halsey Street, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Part 1
Thanks to the sun for giving life to my plants, provided it is the optimum condition for my plants grow beautifully. The colorful full flowers give a pleasant sight for the people who pass by.
I appreciate everyone who is helpful to others. In this case I am very lucky and thankful to my husband, John Watts who helped me stretch the canvas and hang up my painting.
I produced the original painting, “My Little Red Shoes” in 1996.
In the Midst of troubles, I Seek Peace
Cultivating my gardens
To show their beauty
Green leaves of different shapes
Extend out to obtain the sun
I water them every day
In the extreme hot, hot sun
I spray water on the plants
The mist of water
Reaches over the leaves
And colorful variety of flowers
Yellow, red, pink, purple, Orange
In the green ocean of light
And dark green leaves
As I spent my time
With my plants in the gardens
Either in front of our shop
Or at the backyard garden
It is a utopian time
When I seek my Peace with Nature
The plants in our backyard garden, 2021
I produced “Elephant Bath” in 1999.
In the Midst of troubles, I Seek Peace
“This is very beautiful”
“And feels very peaceful”
A voice spoke from a man who walked by me
As I looked back
Seeing two eyes
Showing the only part of his face
Still visible beyond the mask
COVID –19 Is
“In the Midst of our Troubles”
With his focus on plants
He seeks Peace in the beauty of nature
In the Midst of troubles, I Seek Peace
“Do you sell the flowers”
A pretty lady asked me
The flowers are for everyone who
Passes by to see something pleasant
The pretty lady smiles happily
Noticing the flowers
My wish has come true
We are seeking peace with nature
In the Midst of troubles, I Seek Peace
“Is that your painting?”
A young man asked me
“Yes! Are you an artist too?”
I asked
“I did some drawing, but not like this.”
He responded
“The plants are beautiful!”
The young man commented
I smile with happiness
Sharing with others
With my best ability
One human being to another
We are seeking peace with nature
In the Midst of troubles, I Seek Peace
The car door opens
Appear a woman with a child”
“Look! Beautiful flowers.”
She points at the flowers
The child’s big eyes wild open
Smiles responding to his mommy
“See yellow flowers!”
I point at a group of marigold flowers
“How old is he?” I ask
“Two years old” She replies
“Our two grandsons come to stay with us twice a week”
“One is going to be six years old next month”
“One and a half years old,
The young one who is very busy bee”
“He is very busy bee too”
She responds to our conversation
Parents and grandparents understand
The lives around the little ones
Our grandsons give me joy
Seeing them healthy and playful
Visualizing the young ones in my mind
As I lay down sleep at night
Smiling with peaceful sleep
Tomorrow my two little ones will be here
A Black yellow spotted swallowtail butterfly on very large pink flowers.
A Black light blue spotted swallowtail butterfly on a very large pink flower.
A golden swallowtail butterfly on an orange flower.
A monarch butterfly on very large yellow flowers.
A monarch butterfly on jade plant flowers.
A monarch butterfly on golden rods flowers.
A golden swallowtail butterfly on mixed colorful flowers and golden rods flowers.
I miss doing my artwork. I do not have a quiet time to be able to concentrate on composing the artwork. This may be due to worry about the COVID-19 virus epidemic, especially during the last administration that caused about 500,000 (Five hundred thousand) people to die. Almost every day there was some controversial news that came from the presidential twitter account, from the White house. I had to listen to the news carefully in order to be aware of the circumstances. There was no peaceful time to contemplate doing my artwork. But now that the Biden administration has far less controversy, I can begin to have some time to think and even feel affect of missing doing the artwork.
This year my Butterfly bush trees have more beautiful large purple and white flowers than in past years. I saw more butterflies came to drink the nectar from the flowers. Three weeks ago, I saw six monarch butterflies drinking the nectar from one of the butterfly bush trees and more on the other trees. I could not get a good picture because they were very busy, flying here and there. Not one of them stayed still long enough for me to capture the image. In previous years, I was lucky to be able to capture photographs different types of butterflies. I also found some of the older flower photographs that I like. So, I combined the butterfly photographs with the flower photographs. The result is the above pictures of different butterflies and flowers in our garden that I was enjoyed capturing in photographs, in previous years.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, October 1, 2021
Peace with Nature Happy 6th Birthday Kai
Grandpa John and I are very happy that
you read so well today. Now, you can read for
Bodhi and your classmates.
Love,
Grandma Ing & Grandpa John
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