COMMUNITY MURALS

I have been painted a lot canvas 4x4, or 5 x 10 feet long, and murals like 7 to 8 feet tall back my country (Vietnam). When I came to USA in 2007 to continue my education, i also did another mural "We the People" designed by Dr. Robert Hieronimus  last summer 2013. And I know that my natural impulse is to paint, draw and design something….But, I always have been asked myself question " is it because i can not do anything else than painting, drawing that is why i am good at it? Why do I like painting Mural? Public Mural projects - How murals benefit the community?.." And the answer is only one :" Murals can bring Positive Things into a Place, and Murals tell The Stories- Messages".

 I may paint for no other reason than to understand the whole world around them. I am curious, nervous, but also excited to Touch, to Feel to Paint the Spirit and the Peace sign in the mural. A while ago, I used to assume that murals were unique artwork for the public park, culture pride, or neighborhood pride. But the more I learn, the more i understand that Mural is our Message, our Hope. 

This is a reason why i am so graceful, extremely excited to do the next  Brooklyn Library 's Mural with IRC Fellows, AMST, BHST, and people in community.  And I am strongly believe that this mural  will improve the Health and well being of people in community, will bring back the beauty of Filbert Street and Fairfield before. I Believe it!!

p/s: the short video shows the mural in industrial Brooklyn-Curtis Bay community. Others are some of Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural. (I took pic of them when I went back my country last two months)