David J Crawford congratulates whoever is responsible for the extensive community art on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal ( Letters, March 4) and enthuses over haphazard detritus, the variety of soft drink and lager cans diffused by the fluorescent blues of plastic cider bottles.
But these are insipid and unimaginative compared to the glorious art we had before the Millenium regeneration of the canal when three-piece suites, fridges, other white goods, supermarket trollies, bicycles, the odd motorcycle and even a partly-submerged Morris Traveller could be viewed on the stretch between Bowling and Maryhill.
I blame the decline in creativity on misguided environmental initiatives.
R Russell Smith,
96 Milton Road,
Kilbirnie.
I REGRET that David Crawford is unable to further explore community art "a la Tracey Emin" around the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
No doubt he would be enthralled by the Triptych design, duly furthered by the aura of cascading white plastic bags wafting in the gentle breeze; compounded by the carefully placed supermarket trolleys and pretty broken glass on the inroads into Drumchapel.
This is only surpassed and completed by the routes into the Erskine Bridge which manage to finish the painting of pure pleasure with a compilation of flotsam and jetsam – discarded items all. Oh, the joy.
Alas, I fear the Turner prize is too conservative a reward for such obscure wonders.
Why not spend lots of money on revamping an established city square? There's a novel idea.
Brian MacDonald,
Westbrae Cottage,
Gartmore,
The Trossachs.
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