Once more rain-dampened, the 'allover' monochrome surface of the picture plane is thus particularly closely-toned in this instance, in what has become what might be termed the 'classic', pure manner, with visible differences thus distinguished primarily by alterations in texture between the tarmac road surface & the painted lines upon, which themselves display only subtle evidence of the narrative history of their black-over-black-over-original yellow application, with the 'incidental' flecks of the latter echoing those of the lighter stones embedded amongst the tarmac.
The branded design upon the surface of the flattened object serves to provide a small diagonal contrasting compositional 'zip' amongst the otherwise predominant horizontality of the whole - which has a particularly cool & minimalist appearance, generally & in comparison to some of the more recent pictures within this genre - whilst the gentle curve of the can's base also performs a similarly subtle function.
Also, today's potterings afforded the opportunity to revisit the scene of one of yesterday's finds & represent it positionally as before but afresh with the attendant 'double black lines' more preferably closely-toned in relation to the tarmac ground, for that critical 'all-over' surface integrity that is one of the great formal intentions & purposes of the photographic & indeed aesthetic project...
Whilst it was rather exciting to find the other 'Cola Zero' 'roadkill' can found & photographically recorded yesterday had been subject(ed) to some overnight movement, thus enabling it to be pictorially framed within another composition altogether, in a significantly different spatial relation to the 'double black lines' (& at much greater distance from than occurs generally, habitually, one may note), themselves now, as might be observed, also featuring their termination too & perhaps something slightly more of a curve at this particular location...
Truly, such finds are the gift that never stops giving.
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