Pavement Exhibition

This is another one of Keri Smith's 100 ideas-number 1 in fact, and the one that grabbed my attention the other day on Anairam's blog. The idea is -'Go for a walk. Draw or list the things you find on the sidewalk.' Well I cheated and took photos-captions will be my list. The items are in the order I saw them so it will be as if you are stumbling along with me, staring at the ground. (I do that quite a lot anyway if only to avoid the more unpleasant aspects of a dog's day.) A tiny and worn piece of gold foil which looks to me like a tiny skull. This was my favourite find.

A spray cleaner bottle.

A broken red elastic band.

A block of laminated chipboard.

A quite unpleasant looking rubber glove.

A dried up leaf of 'fatsia japonica'-castor oil plant.

A Ribena carton lurking under a bush.

This fits in that it is on the pavement so I included it!

A temporary traffic light warning sign.

A Wild Bean Cafe coffee cup-squashed.

Something blue and a ringpull.

An unidentifiable aluminium drinks can-flattened.

A tiny green flower-not sure what from.

A small picture of a blue creature.

A section of a Doritos packet.

One page from local newspaper 'The Mercury'

Bright yellow ticket.

Battered cardboard fruit packaging-my second favourite item.

Ridged plastic cup-fawn coloured I think.

Red and white paper item.Abandoned school work.

Plastic carrier bag.

Some drawers, a chair, a bookshelf, quite artfully arranged, for rubbish.

Plastic drinks bottle.

Large sheet of MDF.

Mayfair cigarettes empty packet of ten. I saw four cigarette packets and they were all Mayfair-are people who smoke this brand more messy than other smokers I wondered.

I know this is integral to the pavement but I really like these-the letter, the pattern and the lightbulb shape.

Shandy can-not squashed.

Peace sign in the form of a twig.

Blackened banana skin.

Well, I am not sure how much I liked this exercise because it really made me focus on how much rubbish is on the street-including large items like the furniture. This is only a tiny sampling of what I saw too. I did like one aspect-the largely grey backgrounds to the items and the geometrical shapes of the paving. (two aspects!)

I wrote this yesterday after my walk. Tonight it is snowing-proper big flakes which are lying! I am quite excited and may go out for a quick walk just in case it is gone tomorrow.

Have a good week!