Paint Chip

28 November 2007

This is an extreme closeup scan of a paint chip retrieved from the ruins of Belmont Art Park earlier this year. The fragment is about 1cm thick, and appears to consist of about 150-200 layers of paint. (For a sense of scale, note the ridges of the person’s fingerprint in the lower right.) This should give you an idea of the staggering number of pieces painted in this spot over the decades.