This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?". The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Back on the Road
graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm
Returning to the drawing of the ‘roadkill’ drink cans within their full & proper roadside context (as found), the stripe down the design of this particular subject suggested it would be appropriate, in formal terms, for such a purpose as laying upon & thus echoing the double black lines gracing the road surface. As has mostly been the case with such subject matter, the drawing is a composite of two separate sources – the original photograph of the road surface & the more recently found & reclaimed can.
Soundtrack:
New Order 'Movement'
Prince 'Sign O' the Times'
Cat Power 'The Covers Record'
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