after the first few, we kept seeing more and more fancy manhole covers, so we kept collecting, a bit all over taiwan. here’s some more from taipei:
from tamsui:
from hualien:
and kaohsiung!
also from kaohsiung, this rather funky constellation of little sewer lids, which i loved walking by:
ok! so we’re in taipei, and i’m going to try to document our time here like i did in thailand, with one short post for every day. just simple stuff, whatever has been making us look. and first up, we’ve been looking down at manhole covers!
manhole covers are a form of art in japan, where they have hundreds of different ones on all kinds of topics. some years ago they came to taipei too, with a few commemorative ones spread around the city. for me it’s always exciting when someone has taken the time to make a bit of boring infrastructure less boring and more special, and this is just a great example of that.
i feel like going around town hunting for these, adding them to a collection. the colored ones are great, but even the more simple covers are beautiful here. makes you want to roll some ink over them and stamp them on a t-shirt!
