And so the occasion of the arrival of the rather sexy little Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10 (invested in as a pocket-sized & thus more handily-portable, anytime-anywhere alternative to the chunkier Fuji) provided the impetus to test it out 'on the road' & record examples of the recently-utilized small fruit as found, fallen upon the pavement & roadside, some of it inevitably as the 'roadkill' that seems to be providing the general subject (matter) of aesthetic fascination. The grey of the tarmacked road surface provides a particularly pleasing complementary ground to the reds, greens & yellows of the fruit in the creation of an aesthetic harmony.
Then incorporating road markings - a 'painterly' element, of course - into the composition, & introducing a formal device into the informal arrangement (as framed photographically, pictorially, thus relating to the horizontal edges, of course) that seems to intensify the structural role played by the kerbstones...
And finally a more obviously formal (& 'pictorial') composition, as found: Rothko was here, it might appear...
Interesting to consider too, incidentally, from a perceptual aspect, the presentation of such obviously horizontal subject matter, photographed thus from directly above, in the vertical, pictorial form of the screen - something that applies to the whole 'double black lines/aluminium can 'roadkill' enterprise, of course (especially with all such work thus far made being done so - processed through drawing on small, A4 scale - horizontally, thus relating more directly to the subject matter as found).
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