WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME


Where The Streets Have No Name explores the hidden relationship between everyday consumption, personal movement and the city.

 

For this ongoing series, participants are invited to collect all their plastic waste during a single week. The discarded materials, packaging, bottles, wrappers and fragments from daily life, become the starting point for abstract compositions inspired by the structure of their city or neighbourhood. Using these collected remnants, Conrad van Tiggelen creates layered works that resemble aerial maps, urban grids and fragmented street patterns.

 

The project transforms personal waste into a form of cartography. What is normally thrown away becomes a visual

record of movement, behaviour and routine. Streets, crossings and city blocks emerge from materials that once

circulated unnoticed through daily life.

 

Although rooted in specific locations, the works avoid literal representation. The cities become anonymous landscapes shaped by traces of consumption and human presence. From a distance, the compositions may resemble satellite imagery or urban plans; up close, they reveal accumulations of discarded plastic and packaging materials.

 

The title refers to the disappearance of clear identity within contemporary urban life, where personal and collective patterns increasingly overlap. Each work reflects both an individual story and a broader system of global consumption, circulation and waste.

 

By reusing materials that would otherwise be discarded, the series also questions whether art itself can exist without creating additional waste. The works search for a balance between material beauty, environmental awareness and abstraction — transforming the overlooked remains of everyday life into new urban landscapes.

 



SAO TEOTONIO - november 2022

Mixed media on canvas

110 cm x 70 cm

43.3 inch x 27.7 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 



SAN DIEGO I - may 2022

Mixed media on canvas

60 cm x 40 cm

23.6 inch x 15.7 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 



SAN DIEGO II - may 2022

Mixed media on canvas

60 cm x 40 cm

23.6 inch x 15.7 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 



NEW YORK I - IV - april 2022

Mixed media on canvas

(4 individual works as one piece)

100 cm x 100 cm

39.4 inch x 39.4 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 




NEW YORK northwest - april 2022

NEW YORK northeast- april 2022

NEW YORK southwest - april 2022

NEW YORK southeast - april 2022

Mixed media on canvas

50 cm x 50 cm

19.7 inch x 19.7 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 



MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL - january 2022

Mixed media on canvas

180 cm x 120 cm

78.9 inch x 47.2 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 



UDEN - january 2022

Mixed media on canvas

180 cm x 120 cm

78.9 inch x 47.2 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



ROTTERDAM II - december 2021

Mixed media on canvas

120 cm x 80 cm

47.2 inch x 31.5 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



AMSTERDAM - november 2021

Mixed media on canvas

100 cm x 80 cm

39.4 inch x 31.5 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



ROTTERDAM I - october 2021

Mixed media on canvas

90 cm x 70 cm

35.4 inch x 27.6 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



PHOENIX - october 2021

Mixed media on canvas

70 cm x 100 cm

27.6 inch x 39.4 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



OSLO - september 2021

Mixed media on canvas

100 cm x 80 cm

39.4 inch x 31.5 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



MALAGA - august 2021

Mixed media on canvas

100 cm x 100 cm

39.4 inch x 39.4 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



PARIS - july 2021

Mixed media on canvas

105 cm x 90 cm

41.3 inch x 35.4 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME



BARCELONA  - june 2021

Mixed media on canvas

110 cm x 95 cm

43.3 inch x 37.4 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 

 



OOSTENDE - june 2021

Mixed media on canvas

50 cm x 50 cm 

19.7 inch x 19.7 inch

 

series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME

 

 



DEBRIS II - january 2020

Mixed media on canvas

100 cm x 70 cm

39.37 in. x 31.89 in.


series: SPACE ODDITY

 



SUNSET - january 2019

Mixed media on canvas

81 cm x 100 cm

31.89 in. x 39.37 in.


series: BEYOND THE SEA

 



AFTER THE HARVEST II - december 2018

Mixed media on canvas

60 cm x 100 cm

23.62 in. x 39.37 in.


series: HEIMAT



NORTHSEA 10 PM - november 2017

Acrylic on woodboard

50 cm x 38 cm 

19.69 in. x 14.96 in.


series: BEYOND THE SEA

 

private collection - Rhoon



DEBRIS I  - june 2016

Mixed media on canvas

100 cm x 80 cm

39.37 in. x 31.89 in.


series: SPACE ODDITY

 

private collection - Breda



MY FATHER'S LAND - february 2016

Mixed media on canvas

81 cm x 100 cm

31.89 in. x 39.37 in.


series: HEIMAT

 

private collection - Amsterdam




DEBRIS RAIN II - october 2015

Mixed media on paper

110 cm x 70 cm

43.3 in. x 27.6 in.


series: SPACE ODDITY