︎ PENCIL TREES (2025)
Maarten Inghels installed five giant colored pencils made from sustainably harvested ash tree trunks in Sint-Niklaas. Red, blue, white, green, and yellow lines meander through the city streets.
"The art installation plays with scale, color, and imagination, and invites you to explore the surroundings in a playful way. The pencil symbolizes the first word, the first line, the first thought, and childhood, when we learn to draw and write," says Maarten Inghels.
📚 The pencils are being presented in conjunction with the Archipel literary festival. Maarten Inghels and Nikki Dekker will speak on literary imagination, identity, and the role and power of animals in stories on Sunday, October 19th 2025.
👀 See the tree trunks at the Library, the Stadsschouwburg (City Theatre), Stationsplein, Hofstraat, and the entrance to Waasland Shopping.
︎ Maarten Inghels will be Sint-Niklaas' resident artist in 2025 to integrate the new Mercator Museum into the city.
︎ With the appreciated help of @antecorthals, Jan Maas, @bibsintniklaas @ontdeksintniklaas @ccsintnik @waasland_shopping @museasintniklaas @kodak.fem (photography)
👀 See the tree trunks at the Library, the Stadsschouwburg (City Theatre), Stationsplein, Hofstraat, and the entrance to Waasland Shopping.
︎ Maarten Inghels will be Sint-Niklaas' resident artist in 2025 to integrate the new Mercator Museum into the city.
︎ With the appreciated help of @antecorthals, Jan Maas, @bibsintniklaas @ontdeksintniklaas @ccsintnik @waasland_shopping @museasintniklaas @kodak.fem (photography)
