Up the block from my studio is an empty lot where you will occasionally see the abandoned piece of living room furniture among other illegally dumped garbage. A few months ago I spotted a bright yellow 5 gallon, beat-up drum of used oil sitting in the lot. Even though I had absolutely no use for this object, I knew one day it might make a nice prop. When creating diptychs for my promotional pieces, I sometime take the opportunity to go beyond just visually stimulating the eye.
In this case, the oil drum find was eerily timely.
