Thursday, April 07, 2011

Incidentally...

Presenting another example of discarded aluminium can ‘roadkill’ found upon a stretch of the local ‘double black lines’, continuing the series of such images & adding to the not insignificant collection of. As habitually, the object is pictorially framed within the plane of modernist-minimalist grey monochrome that is the tarmac road surface & the painted linear markings thrice-layered upon, subtly modulated in tone, hue & texture.

Subtle details add incidents of interest & idiosyncrasy: the lines display a slight curve from the horizontal; a related white road marking peeps out from under the lower of the pair of parallel lines; on the upper of the lines, ‘zips’ of the original yellow line are visible beneath each of the overlaying corrective ‘black’ ones, relating in primary-coloured fashion to the red of the can’s branded livery, whilst a blob of the topmost layer of paint subverts the otherwise linearity & various cracks add another element of ‘drawing’; finally, at bottom left, a slight change in surface level has occurred at some point of the road’s history, a further narrative 'clue'...


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