Uplifting wheelie bins

Uplifting wheelie bins
Wheelie bins sit by my front door, greeting my guests. Thats the way it is in inner-city terrace homes, without a side path.

They may as well greet us it nicely, I thought, so I illustrated them. Apotheosis with Possums is the title.
When researching for the pictures I would draw, I had to get up early to find out how well the rubbish bins were treated by the collection machine. "What fun they are having!" was my realization. You know how your dad THROWS and catches you when you are little? Maybe the bins look forward to it all week, its a big dawn party we don't know about.
Anyway, I did an apotheosis (going up to heaven) picture of exhuberantly flying bodies, in the baroqe spririt.
Surely all rubbish longs for redemption too.

The wire dragonflies are by the brilliant wire artist Frank Veldze, who I met through the lifesize wire dragon on his parked car. He found a way to make them light up at the push of a button (doorbell, actually) An under-lid old motorbike battery provides the energy.

Heres the creation story:

Bins can be dirty

Which is fine, but...

Maybe they also aspire to being more...illustrious. Haloed.

So with my trusty Japanese markers

100% recycled copy paper

and a well-used tape mesure..

my bins don't recognize themselves.

And now I REALLY don't want to rubbish them

If you know of any organization that would like astonishing themed bins, contact me with your suggestion, as they would so much love to go out into the world. People stop in their tracks when they see the worn-out and familiar looking so glamorous. Makes them hopeful.