Storytelling from discarded objects.
It always makes me a bit sad when people discard other peoples artwork.
I found a very tatty, discarded artwork at the side of the pavement, when walking home.
So many people must have walked past it and not bothered to put it in the bin.
I picked it up, just do my bit and throw it in the bin.
As I was walking I was looking at it and started to get ideas on what I could make with it.
I decided to give this work new life and new meaning.
It becomes a collaboration between the artist, myself and nature (in its weathering)
Here is some process on that exploration.
I cut out the best parts of the picture, recomposed and filmed a mini 'fly thru'.
Found artwork print by: Edith La Breton
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I gathered all of the offcuts and parts I didn't use for the sequence above.
I glued them into another composition to make a piece of collage art.
I liberally glued it together with PVA and then wrote/drip/poured acrylic paint over the top and added the two panes of shattered glass from the image. Which give a lovely effect, because parts of the image stuck to the glass and came off with it as I peeled it off.
It started to resemble a bomb site. Or a war zone. I pour/wrote 'Broken' on it...
Perhaps it is a subconscious ode to our broken society. What do you see?