Found Out a Third Time...

Further findings of 'roadkill' over the weekend along the various courses of the local 'double black lines' corrective road markings, duly recorded & reported in photographic form, the practice of which seems to be forming quite a substantial subspecies of, & discrete area of operations within, the general theme of the current creative practice, given the pictorial nature of the results of the process.

Note the 'compositional' aspect of this first illustrated example, found yesterday, with a pair of still(ed) life objects being able to be captured within the single photographic frame...


Which subject-objects can then be pictured individually whilst still maintaining their own pictorial integrity in keeping with the great majority of previous examples of the genre, not to be considered as merely details of a whole...





And then...walking the same route today revealed evidence of curious overnight goings-on, the like of which wouldn't be out of place in Clinkskell, perhaps, with the Fosters can having not only flipped over but also changed its position, from to the right to the left of, in relation to the Carlsberg one...'the not-so still life', as the title of the exhibition catalogue would have it, indeed.


Given that the double black lines themselves are an unusual & remarkable phenomenon, perhaps the unexpected shouldn't be too great a surprise, & something, perhaps, never to be discounted...

But that’s not all folks, during what proved to be quite a busy couple of days along the roadside, for, prior to the discovery of the movements of the unstill life (re)arrangement, another object was found compressed upon a different section of the double black lines...



which, when panning out as far as possible within the constraints of the photographic frame, may be observed in relation to a second ‘roadkill’ can, impressed upon the bars of a drainage grid, itself an additional compositional device & area of formal interest (note also the splash of blue paint at the top right of the image, another pleasing little incident)...


N.B. The grid area of the original photograph was subjected to a little digital corrective distortion in order to represent it as ‘squared-off’ as possible, to deny the sense of perspective inherent in the panoramic view in the interests of asserting the flatness of the picture plane in best Greenbergian fashion, which seems most appropriate to the subject/object matter represented (& also due in part to one’s personal ‘unreconstructed modernist’ tendencies, as once remarked upon, which obviously endure).

The final find of this most fertile weekend again threw something else into the compositional mix, with this particular 'roadkill' object found upon another instance of the double black lines, these being adjacent to other markings in the form of the 'dashes' of broken white lines - wonderful broad, discrete 'brushstrokes', when considering the whole in pictorial terms, arranged diagonally across the picture plane...


Moving slightly to the left, it became possible to incorporate the ends/beginnings of the double black lines (which always seems an appropriately & satisfying 'painterly' touch to bring to the proceedings if the opportunity so exists) into a composition including the other elements in some form at least...