Levi van Altenburg, second-year student of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning. Photo Resource There are some great-looking individuals wearing the coolest outfits on Wageningen campus. In this regular column, we put one of them in the spotlight. This time, we speak to Levi van Altenburg, a second-year student of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning.
‘I bought this coat in a second-hand shop in England. I hardly wore it for three years, but I happened to be wearing it at a rave once, when someone came up to me with waterproof markers and asked if he could draw on my shoes. That seemed like a fun idea, and that’s how I came up with the idea of doing the same with this jacket.
So I bought myself a set of markers and asked numerous people to draw something on it, on special occasions or at parties. I think by now about 100 people have drawn on it; I started doing it a little over a year ago. I always carry the markers around in my coat pocket.
The biggest drawing is this lovely skull on the back, and the best is the spider – it’s the most detailed, at least. Every drawing brings back memories. Some of them have a meaning but most of them are just amusing, like this one of the beer brand Faxe. The drawings are also visible in blacklight so during parties they stand out even more, although the oldest ones are starting to fade a bit, and I should really redo them.
I get the occasional comment about the jacket, as it does stand out of course. When people say they like it, I ask them if they’d like to draw something on it too.’
