Onvergetelijke buurt / Unforgettable Neighbourhood

The subtitle of this book is 'Proposal for Permanent Chalk Drawings in the Moscou District of Ghent'. For more than three years Bart Lodewijks was making drawings with blackboard chalk on walls throughout a neighbourhood in the outskirts of Ghent, called Moscou. Slowly, he became a known face in the area and succeeded to get permision to draw on facades and interiors of private homes. Next to images of the work, the book contains short texts by the artist and letters to the director of S.M.A.K. and the director of NMBS - the Belgian railway company - to come to a special agreement concerning one specific house.