I noticed landscapers hurrying to finish their assigned
tasks and all sorts of service vans on the road beginning another hurried work
week to make ends meet at home. Some
house painters were busy at work putting the finishing touches on a home just
before I turned off the interstate and set a course for home.
As I signaled my intention to make a sharp right exit onto
one more artery street, my eye caught the quick sight of a spilled can of white
paint. The partially used can had
obviously had the lid pried off earlier as it was placed in the back of either an
open bed truck or trailer. The driver must
have been late for a job and turned onto the exit with enough force to throw
the can onto the pavement, knocking off the lid and rapidly forcing the
contents out before its path!
My mind immediately connected with the paintings of Jackson
Pollock whose most famous paintings were created around 1950. He poured household paint onto horizontal
surfaces which enabled him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. His work titled Number 17A sold for $200
million in 2016.
And now we have an impressive street art piece close to my
own home which I can view at my leisure at no cost for at least the next few
months until winter snow and frozen rains force snow plows and traffic to obliterate
it. Ironically, Pollock lost his life on the street at
the age of 44 in a single-car accident in December 1956, but
his influence still resides in my memory on the streets of Jamestown, North Carolina in 2022.
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