Peace Comes To Astoria, Street Art
Murals and Surrounding Astoria Neighborhood
Queens, New York City, New York
On Sunday, June 26, 2016
Photographs by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
Happy 4th of July everyone 🙂 🙂 🙂
John and I went to Astoria, Queens, NYC, New York on the previous Sunday, June 26, 2016 to view the latest murals. We enjoyed walking about seeing murals on 30 Street, 12 Street and Welling Court by Astoria Boulevard. I was very happy to see some artists produced Peace artwork. We arrived about 2 P.M., the sun was very hot. We cannot see the pictures on our equipment screens that well. I tried my best to capture the murals that we viewed We only viewed a small part of murals. We decided to return home and will come back again to view more murals in different areas.
There were some people taking pictures of the murals.
I intended to walk across the street to view the murals on the other side of the road but I noticed the reflection of part of the mural with the peace sign artwork on the car window. I realized that there is another mural on a wall inside of a gated property.
I came back and tried to photograph the mural. I could not capture the mural in full view because of the gate blocking it.
Luckily my cheap camcorder is small enough to go through the space between the gate bars. I tried my best to capture the whole image. But I only got part of the mural.
I was glad I was able to at least capture the full peace sign.
Thanks to the artist who produced this peace mural. I wish I could have gotten his or her full name.
These murals are on the opposite side of the street from the peace murals that I have shown above.
A group of tourists came to view the murals. Thanks to all the artists who produced the artworks. I love graffiti or street art because most of the artists wish to convey their thought and express them in a form of artwork in public for other people to view, to feel, and to think, no matter if you agree or disagree. But the artists activate people’s brains to think. Sometimes this may tickle the conscious of the viewer to absorb more information from the artwork. Most graffiti or street art subjects are expressions of a present time which one can use as a chronicle of history in this specific time and place. Eventually these artworks or murals will be gone if they are in the changing hands of property owners who want to demolish properties for other business ventures.
John pointed out to the lady photographer that the damaged car is a useful object to compose a photo looking through the mangled window to view the painted fire hydrant.
I will post John’s photographs in the next project. It is interesting to see the difference in composition of individual photographers traveling the same path.
This person seemed to be interested in taking photos of the remains of the crashed vehicle. I felt sad to see the result of such a tragedy. I hope the person or persons in the car survived.
This person is very smart; he used his bike to ride to more places to view murals. He could travel longer distances, and be less tired compared to traveling by walking.
