The subject of the article being pictured leaning against a shoulder-height tower of boxes of cans of Coca-Cola (very Warholian!) thus suggested that these might be visually replaced by an image of an appropriately related 'roadkill' can (numerous of which have been 'Cokes', such is the brand's ubiquity), with the consequence that a little digital play & manipulation accordingly took place.
Having retrieved a suitably reformed object (which was once processed in the form of a drawing-collage & blogged here) & scanned it, the resulting image was somehow rendered unto a form that enabled it to be superimposed onto a digital version of the original newspaper photograph, thusly...
[digital collage]
...creating a representation of an object at least approaching 'human scale', providing some form of illustration of the general concept from which it might be either possible to consider proceeding or otherwise abandoning as absurd, unworkable or whatever.
Having mused in the original post about how the 'roadkill' cans in their reformations, represented on human scale, might suggest certain attitudes of the human form, in terms of stance, arrangements of limbs, etc, note the delightfully serendipitous correspondence of the shape of the object's left-hand side & the adjacent curves of the waist, hip & thigh of the particular female form.
Suitably inspired, a photocopy of a more recently found Coca-Cola-branded object (& note, again most serendipitously in relation to the original image & its stack of boxes, that this particular item claims to be a 'multipack can', for the sake of added visual integrity) was subjected to a similar digital process of collaged superimposition, rescaled once...
& then again, becoming a little larger in the second example & thus more 'human-sized' yet in the process...
An exercise not entirely without worth - perhaps the idea might have legs...
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