The Luminous Box

“The Luminous Box” is a weathered lineside telephone box, which represents a photo on luminous film in the front frame of the box. The site where the telephone box was found is an abandoned railway track in a wasteland by Cologne-Buchforst. The photo shows the telephone box itself and parts of the surrounding area, where the box was originally found. As soon as the sun sets, the twilight contol switch activates the LED strips behind the photo film and, similar to a light box, the photo becomes visible. So that this process could be repeated night after night, solar collectors were installed on the roof of the former telephone box and the solar battery was installed in the box itself. In this way, the former telephone box was converted into a perpetual “Luminous Box” in the darkness of the wasteland.