Colorado St. Bridge

Sidewalks were made for people to walk on, but lots of stuff ends up there. People riding bicycles are frequently found on the sidewalk. Cars are sometimes on the sidewalk. You can definitely find gum on the sidewalk, and same goes for dog shit. Sometimes you can find money on a sidewalk. But when I found this ice cream cone my thoughts were with what I assumed to be a little girl licking her strawberry ice cream when woops there it went onto the sidewalk. David’s photograph from Italy shows the many uses of a sidewalk, including a woman in a pink jacket. I am responding to the color of her jacket with the strawberry ice cream and the sidewalk. By abstracting the usual lines of a sidewalk and yet keeping them identifiable as the symbol, sidewalk, adding in the contrast of the pink against the grey concrete I am telling the story of that little girl who’s tears are still streaming down her face as her ice cream and cone melt into the sidewalk. I placed the cone and most of the ice cream in the lower right hand third to give the image a compositional elegance. The intellectual unity of this image is complete with only a few items and the visual unity is included by those same elements and together they give just enough clues to tell the story.