The Unfinished

 
⨳ These spray paint markings are everywhere in cities (St. Louis, Missouri on the left, Portland, Oregon on the right).
 
⨳ I hate them. I understand they are necessary for utility and city workers’ safety… but crap… I wish there was another way to explain what lies underground.
 
⨳ Maybe I should document and decipher them.

 
⨳ I have absolutely no doubt that if you were so inclined, and not at all worried about bugs or smells or what the neighbors thought, you could furnish an entire house with discarded furniture, appliances, art, and assorted items found in alleys or at the curb.
 
⨳ One day I’m sure I’ll figure out some way to organize all the photos I have of this stuff. Then I’ll make a bunch of really unappealing posters that I’ll print, sign and frame, then leave all over town so a few good and brave people can furnish their home with discarded art left in alleys made from discarded home furnishings left in alleys.

 
⨳ Costumes. Lost. “Lostumes.” Get it?!?!? Hardy har-har.
 
⨳ On the day after Halloween, walk around the neighborhood and shoot all the sad little bits of costumes lost by kids the night before.

 
⨳ If you wanted to, you could get yourself a whole new outfit by picking clothes up off the street.
 
⨳ If you wanted.
 
⨳ Or, it could be cool to take a photo of each item and arrange them in a layout that placed them in approximately the correct location if you were to be wearing them. Much cleaner that way.

 
⨳ Pay attention enough and you’ll see spilled paint everywhere (kind of like discarded chairs, but accidental).
 
⨳ A city worker, contractor or a regular folk have some painting to do, but they forget one important thing: Securing the lid or paint bucket. They drive off, it falls into the street or alley and spills. And leaves a trail.
 
⨳ And maybe a project.

 
⨳ Yeah, so this one’s definitely questionable.
 
⨳ You’re walking along, or riding your bike, and suddenly there’s meat in the street. It might be a tossed chicken leg but more likely it’s a dead bird. Or squirrel. Or rabbit. Or cat. Or worse…
 
⨳ Anyway. The idea is that you stop and take a picture of said meat when met in said street. And it’s like a project.
 
⨳ Or not.