In 2016, painter and tattoo artist Bertus Gieskes decorated the transformer house at the railway crossing on Oldenzaalsestraat with beautiful faces. In about three hours, he turned this small building, which had always been grey and covered in illegal graffiti, into a colourful work of art.
The plan to do something with it had been with the Municipality of Enschede since 2015, but it ended up with Gieskes by pure chance. A civil servant from the municipality came to Bertus' studio to get a tattoo. They started talking about the idea of ​​painting the transformer house, after which the idea was further developed.