Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Good Griddance...

A 'roadkill' find today of something of a different formal nature, deviating from the norm, but one too good not to record for posterity, given TOoT's abiding commitment to the old faithful modernist grid: the silvery-grey monochrome of the object just makes it even more attractive &, with the surface texture provided by the division of its cells too, perhaps reminding one, distantly, of such as Jasper Johns' white & grey 'Numbers' paintings, for example.

There's also, of course, something of a punning upon the more usual form of 'grid' (that, obviously, of the drainage variety) to be found within the context of the road, as sometimes feature as a distinct(ive) & additional element within the usual pictorial compositions of aluminium can 'roadkill' upon various instances of the local 'double black lines'...


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