Tag: phone

Manneken Pis

Mannekin Pis, Brussels

This one eludes me. Both the allure of the Manneken Pis statue itself and, more bizarrely, the behaviour of global tourists for whom nothing is real that isn’t on their phones. That inspired me to break my usual stance of not doing selective colourisation.

Will you look at that

Brussels, Belgium

Curiously, while there were tourists everywhere, many of them were speaking Flemish (Dutch). A Belgian friend of mine explained that for the Dutch, a day trip to major Belgian cities like Brussels and Antwerp for shopping, etc. is quite convenient and common and may be closer than one of Holland’s major cities, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam.

Wearing a Mask Mask

National Portrait Gallery, London

The mask is by Gillian Wearing (you see what I did there?). You can see the mask on the mask face, the shadow of the mask behind, and the image of the sculpture on the phone of the viewer in front. It’s all very meta.