Today's Print - Impressions

Impressions
Roger Smith 2012
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I have always been fascinated about the element of chance in art and equally so by the random and unplanned impressions left by people, animals and nature on surfaces.

On my regular walks I came across a variety of 'urban fossil traces' embedded in the texture of concrete pavement. Apart from the youthful exuberance of carving one's initials into wet concrete, there are unintentional tracks of seasonal change and the foraging, feral population.