In With the New...& the Return of the Old

A new year of course, but, as things may change & fragile hopes mingle with uncertainties, one that already brings reassuring finds of a familiar nature, in the form of the enduring subject/object matter of discarded aluminium can 'roadkill' encountered alongside a stretch of the local 'double black lines' road markings, here represented pictorially as held in photographic captivity.


By way of ushering in, gently, 'the new', the rather fetchingly delicate lilac of the branded livery makes an introductory appearance as the compressed object is observed in detailed close-up...


Whilst panning back out, it becomes possible to frame the 'roadkill' object as found adjacent to another compositional element in the form of a cast iron drainage grid: note, in deliciously serendipitous relation to the immediately previously-posted watercolour drawing of the 'après-tea' still life arrangement, the presence here also, draped across the bars of the grating, of the peeled skin of a clementine or similar orange citrus fruit - a curious coincidence indeed, if not necessarily a seasonally unusual occurrence.