Graveyard Of Colors, Business As Usual

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picture: Wijdesteeg, Amsterdam - until March 2015
Graveyard of Colors, Business as Usual

Amsterdam, Spuistraat - former Art Squat Avenue

Once an organic part of the creative center of the Dutch metropolitan village, now a colorful graveyard, awaiting the next stage of ongoing bulldozeration, commercialteration, hotelification and other forms of unimaginative reconstruction and gentrification.

Fallen walls, settled dust, alleys of the past. The echo of the last blow delivered by sledgehammer a year ago embraces the buildings downtown with its shadow. The demolition team went out for lunch and haven't returned since.

Crows, pigeons and birds of a lesser feather fight with neighboring rats and wandering cats over food gone astray, before future tenants move in and rob them all of their squatted livelihood. Carelessly, Amsterdam slumbers on.

Nothing special,
business as usual.


Thanks to Nefs "Melodious"
for sharing the nostalgia ( - _ ^ )

More, but still only a mere few views
of what it may have used to look like ...
yourlittleblackbook.me/spuistraat-street-art

More about the "Urban renewal of Tabakspanden":
citinerary.net/amsterdam/urban-renewal-of-tabakspanden


RIP Tabakspanden
RIP De Slang
RIP K3

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.: requiesquat in pace :.

all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
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