SAIGON STREET ART – TOKIDOKI (NOMAD)

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: WORKERS IN STRUGGLE

Published on October 19, 2026 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

**“Công nhân đấu tranh” (Workers in Struggle)**, a major Ho Chi Minh City monument by Vietnamese sculptor **Nguyễn Hải (1933–2012)**. It stands at the historic **Ngã Bảy (Seven-Way Intersection)** area, where Điện Biên Phủ meets the Lê Hồng Phong/Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai area.

The figure at the top raises what reads as an industrial object/tool, while the other figures push outward and upward. The idea is essentially:

individual workers → collective strength → resistance.

Food Stall owners in a hem with a graffiti backdrop, District 3

A mural outside of Happi Happi café that perfectly sums up Saigon.

September 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: MUSEUM MAN

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August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART & GRAFFITI: LOLLIPOP 🍭

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August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: STREET LEVEL

Published on October 13, 2026October 13, 2026 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

Blue plastic chair and a motorbike – the essence of Vietnam 🇻🇳

a decaying building at **5 Nam Quốc Cang**, just a few blocks from the heart of old Saigon

leave a building alone for too long and graffiti will show up

**Ho Chi Minh City College of Culture and Arts**. The school itself dates back to **1975**, when it was established after reunification as a vocational school for cultural and information workers.

Chicken Pho & Braised Eggplant in Pepper Sauce with Rice – cà tím kho tiêu với cơm
Con Ốc Quán, **150/39 Nguyễn Trãi**

August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: HIP HOP HELLO

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: A TIDY CORNER, A CLEAN ALLEY

Published on October 10, 2026 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

“Cầu Ông Lãnh – Góc Gọn Hẻm Sạch”

“Cầu Ông Lãnh – A Tidy Corner, a Clean Alley.”

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: TRINH CONG SON

Published on October 9, 2026 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

The writing is a famous verse by Trịnh Công Sơn, one of Vietnam’s most beloved songwriters.

Vietnamese:
Hạt bụi nào hóa kiếp thân tôi
Để một mai vươn hình hài lớn dậy
Ôi cát bụi tuyệt vời
Mặt trời soi một kiếp rong chơi

English translation:
Which speck of dust became my body,
So that one day it could grow into this human form.
Oh, wondrous dust,
The sun shines upon a lifetime of wandering.

This is a poetic meditation on life, mortality, and our return to dust. The verse reflects the idea that humans come from dust, live a brief, beautiful life, and eventually return to the earth. It is one of Trịnh Công Sơn’s most well-known philosophical themes.