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Could have been the rifts that caused it.
Sorry, I just had to!
It’s a little protected plastic box for Jesus to watch from.
This isn’t really a kludge – it’s a preservation measure for the little nook in the wall (of what looks like a church). You see them all the time in Europe to protect things like wall paintings or historical graffiti. The message is “you can look but don’t touch!”.
Looks like what’s behind that perspex is important – so walling it up would be terminally stupid.
I’m guessing there’s a good reason for that – perhaps to show the construction of the pillar or something similar?
It looks like that is from a church or auditorium.
thats art
That doesn’t look like a kludge to me. I think it’s some sort of ancient architectural feature that’s being showcased behind perspex to protect it from dirty fingers.
Something tells me that’s *supposed* to be like that, but I can’t fathom exactly why.
That doesn’t look like a kludge to me, it looks like something that is being deliberately preserved. I bet there’s a card somewhere out of shot that explains what the ‘hole’ is or once contained.
They’re waiting for a saint to happen along so they can stick his bones in that.
Okay, now I’m gonna have to keep coming back to this one just to find out what the story is behind this.
I’ve seen this done in historic buildings to reveil original constuction… and this seems to be a church.
I don’t know the story, so I will make stuff up.
The gray concrete was poured with a recess in it on purpose. It is to designed to hold a church shaped electrical box with the sound and lighting controls. Note that there is space for a rather large conduit to run up from the floor at the corner of the pillar. Once the pillar has its final coat of plaster, no one will see it.
This was part of a major remodeling project. They even had a large forklift in the building for some of the work.
Late at night, the janitor got into the communion wine, and found the keys to the fork lift. He was drunk, and managed to run into that pillar at least 3 times, with the forks at three different heights. Note that a chunk is missing out of the gray concrete, and at least a couple of chunks are missing from the white stuff.
(What is the white stuff, fake marble, styrofoam, something else?)
One of the church members made retail displays out of plexiglass. They discovered the damage late Saturday night. So the plexiglass wizard covered up the oopsy in the column at 6AM Sunday morning. Just an hour before the rest of the church staff came in.
If the oopsy were at the front of the sanctuary, they would have put flowers in front of it, or hung a curtain over it.
Its the Hole-y Church of Saint Spackle.
I wasn’t sure what was wrong with the wall but now it’s clear to me.
Actually, I think it’s a marble facade. They might have it covered for insurance purposes? Just taking a wild guess at this. It’s hard to tell with all the reflection going on. I was once an architecture student, and it looks like marble from what I can tell. If this is an accident/vandalism, then they would need to cover it to keep other people out of it, but would still need access for estimates for repair/replacement. Just a possibility…
Jesus bit a chunk out of it. So now it’s a sacred hole and people travel far and wide to see it…
Haha, I’ve seen this before! The place where I work does this with holes and dents in the drywall because it’s an immediate fix. But they are a nation-wise business and corporate has to approve all constructions, including touch-ups and fixes, using an in-house construction company etc which is usually only available to us 2 or 3 times a year, if we’re lucky (because they only have about 5 people for over 1000 buildings), so the plastic is there to prevent further damage and, in some cases, protect customers from involuntary acts of stupidity… such as sticking their head in the hole in the wall as a joke and getting stuck (yes this happened).
Church by IKEA! See through how cheap it’s built!
I believe it’s styrofoam.
I think My aunt might have had something like this in her house. She had senile plumbing that had to be messed about on a regular basis to keep toilets flowing and suchlike. In the remodeled remodels of the remodels the plumbing had been entombed. So when she and her sons finally located the shutoffs and the place to put the snake in effectively, they put up something like this to keep mice out that still gave easy access on a regular basis. If you look in the back there are plumbingish things shining in the dark there. It still looks like hell and could have been disguised.
I think it was the former site of a religious relic like the Virgin Mary with child for example, that was either stolen, or defaced by hooligans. Maybe even ended up in a Little Italy pawn shop.
this blog should be “the brazilian way”
I went to this place. It is the Museum of Drywall. This is a diorama explaining what a hole is and how they are formed. Further down is the rest of the panels that explain all the steps on fixing it.
At least paint the inside of the plastic to match the color of the walls.
Sorry but this is a real repair!
I live in the UK and you often see this: the wall has some important historial feature which you’d like the public to see but not touch. Simple really!
I like it. Built-in space saver art.
I would suspect that the corner section of the wall was cut out, either to retrieve something in the wall such as a bullet, or to repair structural damage. The Plexiglas may be up to provide a form that they can then fill w/ concrete. Purly speculation on my part, but it seems logical.
You can barely make it out but there’s some ancient writing inside that says it’s a shrine to the lesser-known 13th apostle, Saint Lucite the Transparent.
Oh, please. That’s nothing. You should see my pad with the plastic ceilings. It’s a sight to behold.
“Saint Lucite the Transparent”
Marry me
I think I can see hoy mary’s face on that damaged piece of drywall.
that ranks up there with “Hello Dolly”
@dono1
I salute you sir, that one really cracked me up, though not as cracked up as the wall itself is.
That would be quite believable if not for the fact that you can see that the only thing behind that bit of Lucite is raw concrete. You can even see a chunk missing out of the bottom where it broke unevenly. If I had to guess, I would personally lean towards the “it got damaged and they needed a quick fix while they waited on the contractor and wanted to prevent further damage and they had some leftover Lucite lying around from an old project” theory.
T’were I a betting man, judging by the shape of the hole, my money would be on it being a holy water font that somehow fell or got accidentally ripped out of the wall.
now when the boys are fighting they wont break the wall!!!
Goddamn modern art.
My best guess – bomb damage. If the building is in certain parts of Europe, it could have got bombed in WWII. Someone decided they wanted to preserve that, for historical interest and as a kind of war memorial.
That’s definitely NOT a kludge. I’ve seen some plexi coverings like that here in Hungary. It’s probably because during some restoration they’ve found some medieval wall structures covered by some newer – only few hundred years old – wall, and thus the older structure was hidden (and even forgotten!) for some centuries. Now, that it’s revealed, they exhibit it behind protective plexiglass covering.
>Look around
“You are inside a room with seeting for an audience. There is a corner column with an irregular opening covered by a clear-plexi-glass panel. On the floor there is a plaque.”
>Read olaque
“You are not close enought to that.”
>Read plaque
“Carpenter ants are large insects, ranging in size from 1/2-inch to one inch in length. They are most commonly black, but some carpenter ants exhibit both red and black coloration. They are common in many parts of the world.
Carpenter ants are active year-round and can be found both indoors and outside. It is also common for carpenter ants to have to have an outdoor nest, appearing indoors only to obtain water or food.
In nature, carpenter ants live in dead trees, rotting logs and tree stumps. They tend to build nests in deteriorating wood, but their colonies may extend to healthy wood, as well. In urban surroundings, carpenter ants will make their homes in telephone poles, house porch pillars and roofs, windowsills and wood that comes in contact with soil. Carpenter ants prefer to burrow into damp wood rather than dry wood.
Carpenter ants burrow to provide a nest for their colonies, and over a long period of time, their burrowing may compromise a structure. In controlling an infestation of carpenter ants, it is necessary to first find the nest. Once found, it can be removed or treated chemically. All moisture conditions that the ants found conducive must be corrected.
–”
>look clear-plexi-glass
“You hear a cracking noise.”
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Isn’t that where Jesus rolled away the stone?
Wow, just like new!
post-modern art: deconstruction as art object
This wall was destroyed by someone famous, so they want to preserve it.
Damn, the fish keep escaping.
That’s my guess as well. WWII bomb damage. There’s probably a plaque somewhere right out of the shot talking about it. It could have been better done, but eh… @tw
… And now we come to exhibit c were we show the inside of a wall the plastic was to keep the termites in
Here is where Chuck Norris tapped on the wall to find the stud…
Why fix it when you can showcase it?
Yes. You remember ant farms? This is the termite farm. $19.95 plus shipping & handling and a do-it-yourself instruction manual (Termites not included)
lmao they shoulda put something in the hole in the wall.. it woulda made it look more interesting instead of being like “hey! theres a crack in the wall!! its amazing but u cant touch it cuz it might get bigger..”
Now with removable plastic area to make hiding the body all the more fun!
And the reverend said, “Re-paint, Re-paint and breach not a holey cavity.”