This piece is from Ari Marcopoulos's Entropy collection. The piece below from a normal cursory glance appears to be a landscape gray scale portrait with a busted up trash can on a sidewalk. This piece intrigues me because of the choice of a gray scale it makes it harder to differentiate and identify what the different parts are. It looks almost like the can itself has a wood pattern, there is an unidentifiable white slab coming out of the trash can. Perhaps a concrete slab? Along with a material with a handle draped against the broken trash can that doesn't look like it belongs to the can itself. My initial impression was "broken trash can" and I kept scrolling. But what brought me back is wondering why is there a broken trash can. Looking more into the collection it seems that he was trying to convey the disorder and randomness of the world. My own interpretation of the art is that it makes you wonder why there is a broken trash can on the sidewalk? Along with what meaning is he trying to convey? Based on the coloring and the details I get the impression that the feeling being conveyed is detachment just like how this trash can was used and discarded. What I think is monumental is the fact that something as simple as a trash can can make you stop and ponder its meaning. Everyday we are bombarded with endless sights and other things grabbing for our attention. So to stop and think about something as simple as an item tossed to the side is why it is monumental.
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