An Amsterdam bollard, also called Amsterdammertje, is a bollard on a sidewalk that serves to prevent unwanted parking and to clearly separate the roadway from the sidewalk.

In my garden this is not really necessary, so the Amsterdammertje has a decorative function. Although the originally brown-painted sheet steel pole could be filled in more artfully. For this reason, I grabbed my Molotow markers and painted the Amsterdam pole with graffiti art.

The entire text is Red Eye Graffiti, with two Red Eye Tree Frogs as additional illustrations. This frog has long belonged to the tree frog family, which is why the other drawings on the pole are trees with ornamental flowers. The text Red Eye Graffiti also represents a night’s sleep, as you sometimes do when making graffiti, from which you can get red eyes. A clever piece of work, if I do say so myself.