Are you familiar with electrical boxes?
Those gray things that line our streets? Not all are junction boxes, some serve to store letters. While some are tiny, others are more the size of little houses. In the last years we’ve seen more and more being decorated. Yet, we don’t pay them the same attention as real street art. I thought this might be because they are purely decorative but putting this post together, I proved my own theory wrong. There will definitely be more electrical boxes coming!
Postcards from Berlin #12
Street Art in Antwerp
It is lovely that city councils work with local artists and schools to make the streets more colorful. Electrical boxes of this world would make a nice coffee table book.
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It´s amazing how they were transformed into creative boxes and walls.Can´t wait to visit Berlin once again.
It is becoming a real haven for street art!
Wow! These are beautiful!
Thank you! It’s crazy, all it takes is a bit of paint!
Cool stuff, that way I really like such „boxes“
Thank you for your tips
Those are wonderful. Especially the ducklings.
Thank you Ellen, there was a bit more scenery. If only those damn cars would park between you and your picture …
By design they tend to be ugly and functional, sometimes plastered with posters and stickers. Brilliant to see them transformed like this.
They are odd little things, I can’t even work out what you really call them in english …
Yes. Odd. Maybe they have different names depending on the company which owns/uses them? I’ve heard ‘service boxes’, ‘meter’, ‘electrical’.
My better half is a native speaker as well and he couldn’t come up with a good name … Anyways, I’ll keep hunting for more! Get well soon
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More spectacular street art! The penguin is singing “I believe I can fly” 😉
I can’t wait to see what the artists do next!
The guy who did the stripy art work seems to be all over the city; according to his Instagram. I never really came across them.
Note to self: walk with open eyes
Brilliant 👍
Some cities are definitely better at this than others! 🖤🖤
Strange, isn’t it? With all the money wasted every year, this doesn’t really seem like a huge effort. I may have found a new thing to collect now 😉
Couldn’t agree more!
Look forward to seeing pics of other s you find on your travels! 👍🖤
I love it! So much nicer than a boring plain box
Thank you! I’ll be on lookout from now on
Love this..fabulous artwork.
Thank you!
I love electrical box art! We have plenty of that in Seattle.
It’s weird though that I never took photos of them … I’d love to see Seattle some day!
You would love Seattle. I need to do a new in depth post on Seattle.
Oh please let me know when you do! I have been really lucky to get to know Pittsburgh. Little visits to New Orleans (😍) and a few other places in the States but there are quite a few i would like to get to know …
We used to joke, we won’t travel in Trump times … Now we don’t travel anyways
Yes, normal travel plans are definitely on hold! Once the weather gets better, I hope to create a new and interesting post featuring Seattle. Covid does make everything that more challenging, of course.
Terrific finds. Berlin is a great place for street art
It really is! I got up super early yesterday and got pretty lucky with fotos! It’s a bit werid to see the place so empty these days …
There is no end to the creative artwork that you uncover and spotlight in your blog posts Jeanine. This is such an unexpected creative display on otherwise boring electrical boxes.
Thank you Linda! Living in Berlin might make it a bit easier to spot those things 🙂
We definitely pale in comparison to Berlin Jeanine!
Well … there’s also a lot of hot air about all of this 😉 Many of the big pieces come to live during the big festivals, which many cities have now, too. Plus, you need to know where to look for street art as well. With all the ‘development’ in the middle of the city many of the old hang outs don’t exsist anymore. Berlin used to be a really cheap city, now it is getting harder and harder for artists to just wing it. I guess many cities have these problems. When the invesstors come, a lot of the old atmosphere vanishes, that brought them there in the first place. I’ll spare you the gentrification rant 🙂
Yes, the artists and otherwise artsy-fartsy creative folks are pushed out by a streamlined and modern city, but that city has no heart and soul by the time they are done with it.
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The elephant one really gives me childhood circus vibes…lol
Ha ha, I’ve seen some crazy ones on Instagram lately, I’ll keep my eyes open!