Again a ‘roadkill’ find along a stretch of the double black lines, curving around a junction, allowing the incorporation of another localized road marking within the pictorial space, that, whilst compromising the subtly-modulated all-over grey monochrome of the surface (although, as might be noted, in being degraded from its original white to a worn pale grey, appears to be very much a part of the whole), adds a certain compositional detail &, in fact, somewhat echoes the object itself in its position & angle ('of approach') in relation to the lines.
Once more, the double black lines themselves display a wealth of incidental detail &, not least, evidence of their own erosion, providing further details of surface texture (to their obvious, general purpose of so doing) & allowing an ‘archaeological’ appreciation, in places additional to those where they visually ‘seep’ in outline fashion, of the original yellow paint beneath a further layer of corrective black, a temporal narrative of the road surface’s history & the changes undergone.
One might notice, also, a new addition to the canon of branded identity & the rather fabulous tiger-striped & pink design decorating this particular example, not of the usual carbonated drink variety but still an object of the general type, an aluminium can found flattened upon the roadside in a fashion appropriate to TOoT’s continuing purposes…
Then, a shift in position from which the scene is photographically pictured, whilst employing the same elements, gives a different, diagonal dynamic to the composition…
A little further along the perambulations homeward & another found object come to rest upon the double black lines, this composition of the more traditional horizontal & properly minimalist variety in its concentration upon essential detail, although the concrete slabs at the lower edge offer a slight departure from the more usual ‘all-over’ tarmac road surface upon which the three subtly distinct strata of lines are painted.
Again, particular incidental details occur upon/within the road surface & lines...
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