Revisited anomalies

Smeared Leopold sign

Smeared Leopold sign

Corner Sint-Annakerkstraat / Rue de l’église Sainte-Anne + Blvd Leopold II laan, 1081 Koekelberg See also: Patrice Lumumba Laan Boulevard de la Honte/ Schande laan

Patrice Lumumba laan

Patrice Lumumba laan

Corner Rue Van der Noot straat + Boulevard Leopold II laan, 1080 Molenbeek Leopold II renamed to Boulevard Patrice Lumumba laan. See also: Boulevard de la Honte/ Schande laan Picture by Femke Snelting

Black light

Black light

Sint-Gilliskerkstraat, 1060 Saint-Gilles Street light painted black in order not to intrude in private space. This is a second version of the wooden street light blocker: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1069 And one has to admit: it is effective, the light is not reaching the apartment windows on the left at all.

Cat house collected pictures

Cat house collected pictures

Found back the original photo’s of a cardboard shelter for street cats developing over time. They were separately posted in the category Cat houses I post them here in their full resolution for the sake of my archive. First picture is taken in 2003, the last one November 2004.

Arabe refresh

Arabe refresh

This image looks a lot like the previous ones in this series, (this one and this one) but attentive inspection shows that the writing is new. On the right, next to the E, you can still distinguish traces of the previous E. The monument stands in full sunlight, so even permanent marker ink fades easily. […]

Swathed lamppost

Swathed lamppost

Rue Pierre-Victor Jacobs, Molenbeek,Brussels Fresh bandages for this broken lamppost. It was needed see it’s previous state: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1771

Bed gate extension

Bed gate extension

Two notable additions to the gate around the claimed space in Rue Vanbogaerde: An added side bar connects the two sides: it’s beginning to become a fenced of mini garden. Also: new obstacle are added to prevent cars from parking into the gate. Previous posts about the bed gate are here: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1860

Bed gate 2

Bed gate 2

Rue Vandenbogaerde, 1080 Molenbeek A found bed in the process of being transormed to a fence around a reclaimed bit of city green. Below are some previous stages of this work in progress: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1836 http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1035

Bed hek

Bed hek

Rue Vandenbogaerde, 1080 Molenbeek An old bed served well in the upgrade of The fence around this reappropriated garden. Below is an earlier version: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1035

Black Marker revisited

Black Marker revisited

After the subtle black marble tomb-stone like intervention of artist Pierre Lizin (see this post) had disappeared, a space opened up for once again a re-inscription of the word ‘arabe’. The typography and handwriting are in line with the one in this post from 2010.

Marble arab

Marble arab

A new chapter in the political corrections to the ‘monument for the Congo warrior’. See the ‘Congo Monument’ chapter for other posts. At the spots in the text where it used to read ‘araabsche’ / ‘arabe’, black marble squares have been placed. Marble seems to be more resistant to scratching then the original sandstone of […]

Short sword

Short sword

Luchtvaartsquare, 1070 Anderlecht Brussel This previous post: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=223 shows that it is not the first time that the sword of the monument for the “Fun fair workers” is split in two halves. In 2008 it also broke but it was hanging on for a long time thanks to a temporary construction. Apparently the quality of […]

Beaux tapes 2

Beaux tapes 2

Le Musée d’Art ancien, central staircase, september 2011 The above picture, taken this week shows the repaired railing in the staircase of the Musée d’Art ancien. Two years ago, when the museum was still hosting both old and new art; I photographed the same railing. The gaffer tape seems to be holding pretty well, see […]

Arabe marker

Arabe marker

A loose attempt to draw attention to the removal of the words Arabische / Arab from the monument for the fallen Congo soldiers. This time the re-insertion is carried out with a black marker. An extremely effective tool seen the high contrast with the white stone of the freshly sanded down monument.

Anti parking pilon 2

Anti parking pilon 2

Jubelfeestlaan, corner Boulevard Leopold II Spotted: An improvised way to reserve parking space for inhabitants: Tie a pilon with a rope to a lamppost, stretch the rope over a parking place to signify that you have reserved it.

Plastic cover

Plastic cover

Place Simonis, in front of Metro station A plastic cover waiting to be replaced by a more solid solution. See its history of deterioration in previous posts:

Temporary new looks

Temporary new looks

Re: Hoekstuk

Re: Hoekstuk

Place Simonis, Koekelberg Not so long ago, this electricity-box on Place Simonis got damaged and was consequently bandaged with yellow / green tape. A large piece of the right corner had already disappeared before fresh black tape was applied to hold the remaining bits together.

Rooting pulley

Rooting pulley

Avenue de Versailles laan, crossing Coin des cerises, Over Heembeek One block away from where in August 2005 a glass fitters transport rack for window panes was developing roots, this left behind non-descript pulley now faces a similar fate.

Chopped wood + metal

Chopped wood + metal

Avenue de l’Yser When making this photo on March 13, 2005, I enjoyed the prospect of returning here on a nice spring day sometime in the future to make a picture of the new branches that would sprout from the block. Unfortunately the piece of wood that looked so inseperably intertwined with the decorative arrowheads […]

Wood troisieme age

Wood troisieme age

Rue Lambermont On february 24, 2005 I first spotted this piece of wood hanging over the pavement at Rue Lambermont, near the Belliard straat. Now, one year later It is still there, holding on, it has just aged a little. Looking in detail at the electric wire that is tied around the wood it appears […]

U+W turns U

U+W turns U

On Februari 24 2005, I uploaded this image of a corrected text on a sticker in Rue Royale. In Dutch ‘Your street’ is written as: ‘Uw straat’ in stead of ‘U straat’ as was printed on the sticker. Now after roughly one year the sticker is still there, but the language correction has faded. So […]

Redone; un-sticky

Redone; un-sticky

Rue du Midi, November 2003 Rue du Midi, Februari 2004