Just before catching the tram to the station I managed a quick stroll along Werregarenstraatje. It helped it was right across from my hotel. It was devised as a temporary project during the 1995 Ghent Festivities and this alley still serves as an ever-changing sketchbook, a demo of current street art and especially as a blank canvas for Ghent’s many graffiti artists. The tags and pieces change daily and sometimes the entire alley is painted over so that a new blank canvas is created all over again. In this rule-free zone the spray can rules, the artists respecting works that are better than theirs (Ghent City Guide).
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
Werregarenstraatje, graffiti street in Ghent, Belgium ©2018 Regina Martins
So cool!
Yeah 🙂
Quite a lot of work has gone into some of these.
Below some of the unsightly and careless strokes, there is beauty. I love it that every once in a while the city repaints it and creates a blank canvas for the artists to create anew.