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| Leicester, March 2014 |
When I was younger, there was a small thrill to be had from the whole ritual of writing and receiving letters, buying and attaching stamps, walking to the post box, or discovering new envelopes on the doormat.
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| Leicester, March 2014 |
Now, messages are read from screens, my doormat is overtaken by an avalanche of commercial junk, and a once proud public institution is sold off for private gain in another dodgy inside deal.
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| Nottingham, 2010 |
Rowland Hill must be spinning in his grave.
That first image is very exciting to me...it's the kind of image I try to achieve every time I take out a new canvas. Loose, unintelligible but coherent...gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI spent my drive home Friday trying to maintain and cement the image of a scraped dump truck bumper with peeling red and white reflectors in my mind.
I've been scraping on a canvas with an old dry pen all afternoon.
I'm glad you like that letter box image. I felt like it was a little 'found painting' in its own right and loved the contrast of chaotic scratches and overall geometric formality. There's something great about the crap way it's been painted in the first place too, - a lovely little fragment of urban grunge. People often stare at me in confusion when they see me taking such photos, but I just can't leave stuff like that behind.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention the dump truck. I made a very homemade set-up that allows me to mount a camera on my car's dash and shoot video/stills through the screen as I'm driving, (there's a photo of it on one of my 'Belgrave Gate' posts back there somewhere). I was thinking the other day I should use it to capture the back ends of trucks, (lorries to the us Brits). I love the combinations of hazard graphics, bold diagonal stripes, light clusters, registration plates, etc, and the way they arrange themselves into very geometric found compositions. There's usually a lot of interesting wear and tear and road filth involved there too.
Seems like great minds think alike. I'd be interested to see the results of what you've been doing some time.
Very much so.
DeleteI was in a Walmart parking lot (car park?...we have a running joke about rubbish lorries...between me, my five year old and a friend from Lancaster, UK) last week furiously snapping pictures of the parking line...,yellow, powder blue and white, all converging at a no parking, handicap zone.
I'll post them and some others later in the week. My works up on my blog...in fact it's kinda taken over my blog. Come see me.