Fruit stickers, deli queue waiting
stubs, chocolate wrappers, sweet characters, even discarded shopping lists... all items Adam Graff has seen the beauty in. Consider the time someone has
taken to design those small apples and pears stickers, all to be seen as a
nuisance and dismissively peeled and unceremoniously dumped. At least a food
label gets a little more attention, even if just a few seconds for a cursory
glance to see just how calorific it is. Adam sees the little things and
celebrates their coming together in his book of collections.
Pictorum Gallery (http://www.e17arttrail.co.uk/index.php?page=101&passed_index=94)
didn't initially feature in my list of go to places, containing neither food
nor a food venue. It was luck and chance that whilst waiting for Norman Loves
to start serving tapas bites across the road at the Hornbeam Cafe, as I was a little early; that I
discovered that for a foodie lover, we find food links everywhere! Whilst
browsing the gallery filled with wine sipping art appreciators, I spied the
colourful scrapbook. As I flicked through, Adam approached me to explain his
work.
An illustrator for the most part, his life-long collections include a still-being-completed folder of lost playing cards, the tessellated designs found
inside envelopes, and many more including the aforementioned food related
themes.
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| Look beyond the bills to the beauty within. |
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| All shopping lists left behind in baskets and trolleys |
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| How many do you recognise? |
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| Still some way to go before he can play snap |
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| Eye catching offers |
The front and back covers showed his collections
had started from an early age as a child collecting badges and chocolate
wrappers, at the depressing price of 3p per bar – those were the days!
I asked
whether Adam had one of the E17 badges and swiftly added to his collection when
I heard he was missing our special red limited edition, definite collector’s
item, must-have fashion accessory!
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| Adam proudly displaying his latest E17 Art Trail 2014 badge. |
It seemed his passion for collecting was infectious as, on exiting I spied another
waiting treasure trove of stickers, logos and cardboard scraps at the grocers
next door. It seemed my excitement was right as Adam joined me and saw a new
one for his collection!
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| The thrill of a new discovery! |
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| Carefully adding his latest addition |
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