Project, Project, Project, Urban, Urban, Urban.....

To be honest I didn't know what i was at to start with, but then i decided on a focus point or it decided on me.

I find the shapes created in the discarded rubbish of the urban environment very interesting. I know "why?" you say. Well the folds and shapes they take on seem almost like they have become organic even though they are a product of the ill-treatment of the urban environment.
Yet a newspaper dumped (without thought or thought but ignorance) on the street finds its way into a corner, moulds itself to that corner and changes color according to the weather. It in an obscure way developes into an element which belongs now as part of the urban environment (albeit a dirty part of it), just as fallen leaves do. Am i talking any sense, God knows! It makes sense to me.....

Here i was exploring in my sketchbook the patterns and textures of the imagery i had collected on my ramble around limerick city.
The note i have written in the corner is:
"It's discarded... but discarded in a certain way... also i didn't realise until after i developed the picture that there's a cartoon on the dumped piece of paper encouraging the consumer to discard of the wrapper in a bin. IRONIC, that it's been thrown in the middle of a pathway."