Inverted Paint Splashes: Calgary, AB

This salmon-coloured wall was in a neighborhood fast under development, a small symptom of a rash, oil-rich economic boom.  So often during such a boom, old objects sit wearily to one side, evicted and un-noticed, while new objects rush off the assembly line to take their place.  Age is replaced with youth; memories are cleared like smells from a musty room.

I liked the defiantly shaped white arcs haphazardly splashed over this wall.  Surrounded by fresh foundations and fast-paced progress, the non-designer paint and its chaotic additions are comfortably cathartic, a demonstration for a livelier, dirtier future.  Inverted, it takes a more top-heavy shape – still at odds, but tenuously close to collapse.

Inverted Paint Splashes: Calgary, AB, 2007