DAVID CHANDLER

‘In praise of decay’ (for J.M.)

45 illustrations

from Jonathan Meades’ Museum Without

Walls 2012 page 22

2012 -13

Paintings, screenprints, stencils and collages

In praise of decay

cover of

sketchbook 2013

1. roads to nowhere

2. Victorian pumping stations

3. rats

4. toxic canals

5. rotting foxes

6. used condoms

7. pitta bread with green mould

8. polythene bags

9. carpet tiles

10. countless gauges of wire

11. keep-out signs

12. goose grass

13. shacks

14. torn tights

15. burnt-out cars

16. burnt-out houses

17. chemical drums

18. cooking oil drums

19. washing machine drums

20. squashed feathers

21. tidal mud

22. former railway line

23. a shoe

24. may bushes

25. a hawser

26. burlap sacks

27. ground elder

28. a wheelless buggy

29. perished underlay

30. buddleia

31. a container

32. cracked plastic pipes

33. a ceramic rheostat

34. a car battery warehouse

35. scraggy horses

36. a salmon smoker

37. bricked-up windows

38. travellers' caravans

39. worn car tyres

40. jackdaws

41. herons

42. jays

43. a petrol pump

44. railway sleepers

45. allotments