Strolling along this morning and saw these little multi-coloured dribbles of paint. Not sure how they came to be here but they add a little bit of paintery interest and of course the classic combination of organic forms and straight lines immediately start to suggest ideas about balance and composition. So you can imagine my surprise when casting my eyes 'back and to the left' of this scene an interior wall was revealled by the demolition on a freshly cleared site, now left as waste ground.
It is always fascinating when the domestic inside of buildings spill out, often witnessed in the media during natural disasters. This dramatic black paint splatter remains ambiguous as to whether it was lived with before, or appeared after the walls were peeled back. Next door to it a charming red rectangle, peeling away in sympathy with the layers below it, prompts thoughts about how it came to be, if not applied by an Russian constructivist. The field it floats on has a wonderfully sublte tonal history and the second rectangle in the bottom right hand corner balances the whole richly detailed surface.
The encounter put a smile on my face and convinced me that we benefit from such touches of colour and painterly applications that become part of our experience of the urban landscape and which seem belong and add depth and variety - rather than detract from their setting.
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