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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: TRINH CONG SON

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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.

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: PROPAGANDA

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July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: 🌳 🦋

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July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: 🪏 🌳 🚦

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: BLACK CREDIT

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tín dụng đen = black credit, the Vietnamese term for loan sharking or illegal informal lending.
Propaganda Art on a utility box.

23july26

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: STREET HAPPENINGS

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Uncle Ho and the map of his country
Everything can get fixed on the streets
A “đá” man – “ICE MAN”
This small shrine across from the main park is still an active place of worship, not just a historical marker.
Locals stop there to light incense, leave flowers, fruit, and other offerings, and pray to Thích Quảng Đức, who is venerated as a Bodhisattva (Bồ tát) in Vietnamese Buddhism. Many people consider the actual ground where he sat to be sacred, so this older shrine carries deep spiritual weight.
(Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in protest on June 11, 1963.)
Red plastic stools and graffiti
A lot goes on within the hems
Everyone, all ages, all genders, all walks of life, sit on colorful plastic stools and eat their meals together
A floral nón lá
A Grab driver waiting for a call
“Hipster-nese” in Thao Dien

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: UTILITY BOX ART 👮‍♀️

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: KHU PHÔ’ 16 PROPAGANDA

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Hẻm 258 Xuân Hồng Đào – Alley 258, Xuân Hồng Đào Street
Khu phố 16 – Neighborhood (Residential Block) 16
Tartnow – Xuống Vẽ – This appears to be the name/signature of the mural project or artist. “Xuống vẽ” literally means “go paint” or “come paint.”

Phân loại rác – Sort your waste
Hành động nhỏ, thay đổi lớn – Small actions, big changes.
The three bins represent:
🟤 Brown bin – General/non-recyclable waste
🟢 Green bin – Organic/food waste
🔵 Blue bin – Recyclable waste

Khu phố 19 – Neighborhood (Residential Block) 19
The mural’s message is environmental:
Protect the oceans.
Recycle.
Keep neighborhoods clean.
Care for nature for future generations.

The large artistic script reads:
Mừng Xuân Ất Tỵ – Happy Lunar New Year of the Year of the Wood Snake (2025).
The painting depicts a traditional Vietnamese market scene with a bicycle carrying bánh tét (traditional sticky rice cakes) and flowers, symbols of the Lunar New Year.

23july26

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: “NO GRAFFITI, PLANT TREES”

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Propaganda Art on a utility box

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: 🐭 🗡️

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July 2026