Original artwork description:

The Netherlands is no stranger to the phenomenon of messily parked bikes. Duh! In a country where there are more bikes than people these unlovely looking contraptions all have to be somewhere. Not everyone has a shed to house their bike and while there are now some impressive bike parks in the train stations of the larger cities - Utrecht can accommodate 12500, Amsterdam, 7000 - that still leaves a lot of bikes left over, hanging around, with nowhere to go. Bikes parked on bridges over canals tend to spoil the cute aesthetic of the scene but here the ripples in the water somehow make these bikes easier on the eye than your average gruesome tangle of metal and spokes and leather. And the sole red basket reminded me of the girl in the red raincoat standing out in the bleak monochrome of Steven Speilberg's holocaust epic Schindler's List. Wow! That's quite a leap I hear you say. Indeed it is. Sorry about that. But whose bike is it? Are you out there somewhere?

Materials used:

Acrylics

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