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Remembering Ing & John’s Street Art 2019 before the COVID-19 arrived
Ing & John’s Street Art 2019, Downtown Newark, New Jersey, USA
Kai, The Artist, and Ing and John’s Artwork
July – December, 2019
Photographs by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
My first day of Street art was on Friday, July 26, 2019. I took some plants from our backyard garden to display in front of our shop. I started my first display of artwork with “Elephants at the Water Lily Pond” I produced in 1999. There are always people walking by our place, but more during lunch time. Most of them are the office workers. Also, in the evening, people walk by going home from work. Some people are interested in the artwork, and ask questions, while others are oblivious to the artwork that I display.
I love plants and flowers. It makes me happy when I see the freshness of green leaves and beautiful flowers blooming. Our shop is closed temporally, and the window gate is down. I thought that if I display our artwork and some of the plants from our backyard garden in front of the shop gate, it would make it more pleasant for the people who pass by. I am happy to do it, and I hope the artwork and the plants will help the downtown office workers or others feel fresh and lively.
I love street art for many reasons. First of all, the artwork is there for the public. It is for everyone who passes to their destination. Without spending time visiting art galleries or museums, they can see art while they are going to work or getting lunch. Some may pay attention to the artwork and some may not. Some may ask questions about the artwork. I hope, at least the artwork will activate the thought process of those passing by.
This artwork of mine titled, “I Have A Dream – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”, I displayed from, Wednesday, August 14, 2019, to August 21, 2019. I produced this work in 2010. I also added more plants to fill the front of shop space.
My Thai classical artwork was displayed on Thursday, August 22, 2019. I produced this artwork in1994.
For more photos and information, please visit the following link:
Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 1
On Monday, August 28, 2019 John added his work to the display. John’s artwork is on the far left, “Impossible Dreamer”. “Gandhi Man of Peace”, in the middle is my artwork, which I produced in 2010. The far right is John’s artwork “Beneath the Lake”. Thanks to John Watts, my husband, for helping to display the artwork in a better presentation.
I am happy to display our artworks in public. There seems to be a positive reaction from the people who view them. People comment about the beautiful plants and unique artwork.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Monday, October 7, 2019
I am very happy to have an opportunity to display our artworks in public. There were people asking some questions about our artwork. Some people took pictures of our artwork. It seems to be a positive reaction from the people who view them. People comment about the beautiful plants and unique artwork.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 3
Kai, our grandson, who love to do painting. He volunteers to do artwork in front our shop.
This is the nature of life. One minute we are here and the second minute we are gone. What remains’ is what we did with the minutes before, while we are still alive on earth.
On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, while we were taking our artwork down at night time, a homeless man asked me, “Do you sell the paintings?”. “No, I said, we put our artwork up for people to see, and it makes the sidewalk more pleasant to walk by.” Then he pointed to my Gandhi artwork and asked “Who is this man?” I explained to him that “His name is Gandhi. He helped his country of India to gain independence from the 200-hundred-year rule by the British Empire. He achieved this by non-violent mean. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who fought for human rights in this country, USA, followed Gandhi’s non-violent philosophy. I felt very glad that the homeless man asked me the questions.
I do not think that homeless people or working-class people will have a much of an opportunity to visit art galleries or museums. This is one of the reasons that I love Street Art. The artwork is in public view. Some might like the artwork or some might not, but it can create inter action and activate the viewers to think. This thinking process helps create learning and reasoning about what others show or tell you to believe.
There are some people asking us about our artwork that we display in front of our building. So, we decided to post a sign to let people know who did the artwork along with my Peace Poem.
Little one on mother’s bosoms
Happy to hang along
Where ever she goes
Ride, ride, ride
Happy mother and happy child
I am a lucky one
Ride, ride, ride
Mommy, Daddy I love you
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, November 10, 2019
I wish some of the homeless children that I saw in the parks or the public library will have comfort and be as well provided for as this child.
This past summer I took our grandson, Kai to Newark Museum, I found out that it is free admissions for Newark residents, for others it cost $15.00 for an adult and $7.00 for a child. I took Kai to Military Park to play. I met a woman who has seven children and is not a Newark resident, so she can only bring the children to the park and cannot afford to pay for the Museum entrance tickets. I think the working-class, poor, and homeless children, need as much as education as they can possibly have. Museums and libraries are good places for children to learn. They can form good habits of learning and be able to do well in school and have ambition to get higher education, such as college or university. Education can help people get out of poverty. The cities nearby Newark, such as Irvington, Jersey City, and others cities have poor and working-class children. These youngsters will be left out of the experience and enjoyment of seeing the fantastic artwork collections that Newark Museum offers to Newark residents, and well to do families out of town that can afford the price of admission.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Thursday, November 14, 2019
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Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 5
Left: Midnight – John Watts’ Artwork
Middle: Vincent van Gogh and his letters to his brother – Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts’ Artwork
Right: Homage to the Dragon – John Watts’ Artwork
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Saturday, November 30, 2019
Kai, The Artist our grandson, who just turned four years old.
It was time for the four-year-old artist to relax and play.
I have a better chance to learn human behavior and development from our grandson than our only daughter when she was young. This was because we were so busy with working and now, we have more time to observe our grandson’s interaction with other children, including his behavior as a baby and his progress up to now.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John Watts, Saturday, November 30, 2019
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Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 7
I am done, Grandma!
Time to run
And have fun
Catch me
If you can
Run Grandma run
Fun, fun, fun
You can’t catch me!
It’s great fun to
Run, run, run
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Emerging Cinderella from pink flower
Modified Artwork by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Vincent van Gogh admiring flowers
Artwork by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Hi! Mr. Kai!
How are you?
Hello Mr. Snake!
I am fine
Thank you
How are you, Mr. Snake?
I miss you Kai
I was alone in the box last night!
Can I kiss you?
No! You might bite me!
I am not going to bite you
See! I have no teeth
I only have long tongue to smell you
OK! You can kiss me
And you are going to sleep with me tonight
Can I hug you, Kai?
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Kai was talking to his mother about the Magic Dragon.
Now, the Magic dragon has appeared. Trick or treat anybody???
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Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 9
Left: Midnight – John Watts’ Artwork
Middle: Vincent van Gogh’s Broken Frames– Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts’ Artwork
Right: Homage to the Dragon – John Watts’ Artwork
John Watts’ Sculptures
Kai’s Painting on Friday, September 13, 2019
After working very hard with his painting, the artist spends time to exam the flowers.
For more photos and information, please visit the following link:
Ing & John’s Street Art and International Street Art-Part 11
The reason I am re-posting some parts of, Ing & John’s Street Art of 2019, is because I miss our life and activities before COVID-19 arrived. I enjoyed posting our artwork on our shop window shutter. I had a chance to see people outside the house. Especially, when I had conversations with people who were interested in our artwork. We usually went to do our shopping, especially for food in different places. We went to obtain our Chinese food at China Town in New York City. After we had some food from China Town, we would head to Central Park, Washington Park. John had some of his readings, and plays performed in NYC, which was his best opportunity to meet friends involved in theater.
On March 10, 2020, I went to a hospital to support our daughter when she gave birth to our second grandson, Bodhi. That is the last day I step outside our house until now. It will be two years next month since that event. Thanks to my husband, John Watts for doing all the grocery shopping and other necessary activities outside of the house. When the weather is warm, I would go to the backyard and tend my garden, enjoying and seeing the flowers bloom. Some butterflies and bees came to drink nectar from the butterfly bushes and other kinds of flowers. Roses were blooming beautifully in Spring and Fall, when the weather was cooler. Now, the weather is very cold, some plants dormant for the winter and others are completely gone. On Saturday, December 29, 2021, I looked at my backyard, and I saw snow over the garden. I took photos of the backyard. John took photos of the front of our shop and the street, before he had to clean the snow from our sidewalk.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, February 6, 2022
I took photographs from our backyard garden.
John took photos of the front of our shop and the street, before he had to clean the snow from our sidewalk.
The New York Times on January 30, 2022
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