DISPOSABLE ART

Don't step on that paper bag, it might be Lon Chaney!

Sometimes I pimp up scrappy tatty remnants of paper before they're consigned to landfill sites or recycling plant, its kinder I figure to send a page with a doodle and drawing to the next stage in its life than without it having properly served a use.
 So envelopes , bits of paper and cardboard often get decorated by me for no real purpose -  heres one I did today.


Oddly enough shortly after binning this I came across a news story which read as follows...


Snowy Moutains , by the acclaimed Chinese artist Cui Ruzhou sold at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Wan Chai area of Hong Kong for $3.7 million.
            The artwork was reported missing a day later by the auction house fearing it had been stolen.
However, CCTV recordings studied by the police showed a security guard kicking the wrapped-up painting towards a pile of rubbish, apparently thinking it was litter.
            The rubbish was taken to a landfill site in the city of Tuen Mun. Police searched the site but found no trace of the painting. The identity of the buyer as not been revealed.
            The Grand Hyatt group said it would not take responsibility for the loss. 

Its left me thinking that those boys that clear our refuse away must have some interestingly decorated walls!