'The Life Aesthetic', as Ever

Another day &, almost inevitably, another example of discarded drink can 'roadkill' found upon a stretch of the local phenomenon of the 'double black lines' road markings, photographically framed into pictorial form that allows one to make playful reference to such hardy perennials of the practice & theory of modernist painting as the 'flatness' of the picture plane & (more or less) the monochrome, with the tarmac surface being read as as a most pleasing example of a textured, painterly-brushstroked ground, the discrete 'facets' of which might catch the play of light, shifting & shimmering in relation to the spectator's position relative to the 'picture' as observed upon a studio or gallery wall, for instance (& as actually occurs during one's encounter with the object of the accidentally compressed can itself, which thus instigates a rather intriguing 'dialogue')...



Art can be found anywhere one might look, not least down in the gutter...