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Apichart is working inside several artistic lineages at once, and they all converge in the watch paintings.

He draws from the long tradition of repetition‑as‑practice, where the artwork is the residue of a daily discipline rather than a single expressive gesture; this connects him to artists like On Kawara, Roman Opalka, and Peter Dreher, all of whom turned seriality into a form of lived time.

At the same time, his work sits firmly inside the memento mori / vanitas tradition, which treats the artwork as a meditation on mortality; his own statement, that each painting increases while his remaining time decreases, is structurally identical to the logic of vanitas painting.

Layered onto this is the broader Asian lineage of technique‑as‑self‑cultivation, where repetition is not mechanical but ethical, a way of shaping the self through disciplined practice.

His paintings also belong to process art, in which the meaning lies in the accumulation of actions over time, and to time‑based conceptualism, where the artwork functions as a temporal record rather than a single moment of representation.

I am just wondering whether the city government has any shelters that women and children can live in temporarily? If they do not, will this become a priority?

There was a stretch of Lodhi Road, near Humayun's Tomb, where numerous women and children were living outdoors in filth.

I am a foreign visitor currently in Karol Bagh (yeah, a budget traveler) and I see women and children living outside publicly as well over here on my way to the metro in the morning. They are often very dirty, which makes me think they really are homeless and without shelters.

I am just a stupid tourist, sorry, maybe I am missing something. Are these people just pretending to be homeless to make money from donations?

If these women and children are homeless, shouldn't some city agency be helping? Even if they are not, isn't it child neglect for a mother to keep her children outdoors in this extreme heat and humidity in the middle section of a busy street with so much dirt and noise?

In New York City there are shelters that hold about 50,000 homeless people. This is criminal in my opinion, that so many people live in temporary housing that becomes semi-permanent, but at least the kids have a roof over their heads and can go to a public school regularly.

I guess I am asking in the most humble and sincere way I can - is New Delhi government doing enough to help the homeless and poor?

What can be done?

Hi,

Coming to Delhi was a dream of mine but things have gone badly. Someone tried to cheat me in regard to a ride back from the airport (4,800 INR instead of about 800 - I realized 4,800 was too steep and found the cheaper price.)

But that new driver from the Delhi Police Pre-Paid Taxi could not get me to the address I gave him on Faiz Road. This is a big road, how did he not find it? I felt lost and a bit scared. WE were just driving all over the place. I literally rolled down the window and yelled "Anyone speak English?" A guy came over and programmed the Google Maps for the driver to get me to the budget hotel.

So I get to the budget hotel and they say, "You know, expedia didn't charge you enough. We demand 10,000 INR more."

Everything is going wrong. I love Indian culture and history and have had wonderful Indian friends.

Can you please be my friend for the next 20 days that I am here? :) I will buy you coffee and good food.

I am a well-educated guy who worked for many years as a teacher in the USA and China. I love art and history and doing volunteer work.

Right now, I booked a new hotel but I am having trouble even finding it because of battling AIs.

I was hoping there might be a kind should who can be a bit of an adviser for me and I will pay you back mightily if you ever come to China or New York, :)

Please drop me a direct message?

Thanks - Dan