A reimagined event

I have always liked night clubs. Rembrandts, in this painting is partly outdoors in a warm climate.

Corrugated metal sheeting, such a common versatile building material.

Here used as a wall, a definer of space.

Invented in London in 1892 by Henry Palmer an industrial engineer .

Introduced to African countries in the 1870s initially in the mining industries.

In informal settlements like Kibera in Nairobi, you can find rusting sheets of corrugated metal that have been reused multiple times

and repurposed alongside other building materials

Kibera was developed in 1918 when plots of land were allocated to Nubian soldiers returning from fighting in the First World War.

Kibera means forest. It is now a forest of human life, one of the biggest informal settlements in the world.

notes: Esso man oil drop key ring : Chandigarh chair

“museum of rain” ? I like it. I’m sure the grockles will part with cash to visit your museum, as long as you do a cream tea in the caff. Reminds me of that old Tommy Cooper joke - “ I saw her in the street the other day. She gave me a wave. I’ve still got it at home in a bucket”

Ghost Container oil painting 16 x 20 ins

Containers - the ubiquitous steel shipping container was invented and patented in 1956 by Malcolm McLean, who started his working life as an American truck driver. He co founded McLean Trucking Co. The idea was to use the same container to transport goods from trucks to ships to railways without the goods having to be removed. It transformed the cargo industry and the lives of many. The UK’s and the world’s docklands changed forever.

It was the standardisation of the containers that made them successful, and the adaptation. of transport to carry them. The common size has lengths of between 20 to 40ft, widths of 8ft and heights of 8 ft 6 ins.

Ai estimates that there are 10,000 containers lost at sea every year and that there are any number between 17 to 530 million containers like these in the world. They are now mostly made in China.

Malcolm McLean died in 2001 in New York aged 87.

Oil painting 20.5 x 30.5 cm

Standard 8 1950s film box and reel

Patterson 1060s film slide storage box

Oil painting 20.5 x 30.5 cm