recently spotted in a small norfolk town with an unfortunate name, and i had the camera to document the road works in progress...
a council roadworker with an keen eye for absolute precision in road painting, even if it doesn't entirely match... i was left briefly pondering, is this normal for norfolk*..?
but this wasn't the only painterly road incident. further along this minor road there was another occurence of fresh double yellow line painting... what would this exact colour be in pantone..?
it seems that council yellow comes in many shades, or else it fades very quickly...
and sometimes remedial action is taken later on, in trying to match the original colour...
but i am saving my favourite photograph for last... here in close-up, a unique road work composition in a medley of mellow (and not so) yellow hues, wonderfully crackled textures and mismatching layers, subtly embossed by the pattern of tyre treads, my found painting (or print) of the day...this image has some definite kerb appeal and more than enough art historical references, should one wish to analyse it any further...
this post is written with much reference to and respect for the artist over at the aesthete'sfoot blog, aka the opposite of tomato, an artist who has brought an intriguing, conceptual dimension to what could be loosely termed 'creative kerb crawling' in his two years (or more?) drawing project, to visually document discarded drinks cans in all their myriad convoluted, crumpled and flattened forms - see also the curious incidents of the double black (not yellow) lines.. he now calls himself the darjeeling fop... well, that's the line painting finished - time for a brew..?...*normal for norfolk; a somewhat derogatory slang term used by medics, often shortened to NFN, as a means to identify in the Doctor's patient' notes that the unusual symptoms or behaviour presented maybe the result of the patient being, relatively speaking (so to say), someone wuss abit darf, nut roight in the hed......