“Plastic Bag as a Jolly Roger” (2011 – 2014), sees objects (litter) found in public spaces being moved to more surprising, seemingly impossible positions. Picking up those particular urban tumbleweeds, plastic shopping bags, Jongeleen would climb at his own peril to hoist them into the city winds. If by chance you happened to notice one, you’d probably keep walking. But when you saw a second and a third, questions appeared and in the search for answers an important thing happened: you began to look at your city differently. Centuries ago pirates hoisted flags to communicate their intentions. The traditional name for a flag that shared a position free of a particular state was the Jolly Roger. Here both a symbolic flag (bag) and a video sculpture are present. The video tower shows Jongeleen placing these dirty bags in prominent places: on top of a residential building, on a bridge, on the tower of the museum, in a highly visible spot on the water’s edge. In this way, the proud architecture of buildings was subtly degraded, but more importantly perhaps, Jongeleen shifted the gaze of passers-by encouraging them to look up and assume different perspectives on their everyday surroundings.