Junk Drawer

The title of this find could easily be its title if it were a sculpture, or public art installation. That’s what it seemed like when a friend pointed it out on the corner of the sidewalk while we were walking along. This automobile bumper, with a can of Pabst at the center, appeared to be the work of some hipster artist. It probably wasn’t an intentional art piece, but it took some amount of effort for somebody to place their empty can there. I see cans along windowsills, or places where they’re easy to just set down. But this one makes me wonder if the person had been enjoying a beer while working on their car. Or if a car had been bumped and lost it’s bumper, and someone drank a toast to it.

However it came to be, it caught my attention, as one of those random combinations of things that look to have artistic potential, in a Pop art, found object sort of way. Not that it was good art, but now I think I should have carried it into some local art gallery.