When you have a work vehicle, or a vehicle you use for work like my dad did for many years, that vehicle tends to get dirty.  I mean, “Mr. Clean would flip out,” dirty.  As a result, there would always be some smarty-pants who believes the height of comedy is to write, “Wash me.”  But what of the art of Scott Wade?  He takes the coating of grime on cars and turns it into beautiful and surreal works of art.

On one hand, part of me says it’s a shame that a hard rain will wipe all that hard work out.  I think we can all agree on that.  However, if you took that dirt and moved it to canvas and preserved it, or just parked the car somewhere as part of a permanent installation, wouldn’t that take away from the magic?

The main reason this is so awesome is because it’s just dirt on the side or back of a car window; if you altered it in some way, then the magic is gone.  This is one of the instances in which the medium and method of delivery is more important than the art itself.  It’s not as simple as saying that without the car, it’s just a bunch of smudgy dirt, but the car is crucial to the work because you see dirty cars all the time and there’s never anything this profound drawn in the grime.

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