| Nederlands | Rocks in South-Africa |
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If you are in rocksigns and visiting South-Africa, take some extra film and a sketch-book with you. This type of warning-signs seems left out of the standardization programme: every pass, almost every curve has his own version. After days of new variants continuously coming up I didn't feel much like road sign collecting any more. Team members had a hard job cheering me up. | |
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| Ceres (Michell's Pass), VII.1997 | Cape Town, VII.1997 |
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Although the variation is enormous,
it is possible to bring some structure into the collection.
The number of boulders is constant: seven stones, no more no less. Given the number of panels, this is extra-ordinary. But further analysis revealed that the size of the stones could help to clear things up. The samples lead us to distinguish two main groups. |
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| Citrusdal, VII.1997 | Prince Albert - Beaufort West, VII.1997 |
| The first group (left column) has
seven stones of about the same size
each. The artist seems to be free in the positioning of the stones: sometimes
close to the wall, at other times drifting away.
The second group (right column) features boulders together with gravel-like stones. The position of the stones on the contrary, is more or less constant. |
The British rock warning sign has similar looks (and probably inspired the South-African counterpart), but comes out quite different if you look a bit closer to the disposition of the pebbles. |  |
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This panel has been mounted with the wrong side down, creating the illusion of
boulders escaping from earth. Visit USA, Armenia or Belgium for more. I suppose that engineers from Jordan took exactly this traffic sign as an example to furnish the Desert Highway. |
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| Zwartberg Pass; Oudtshoorn side (VII.1997) |
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