Common Ground is a series of paintings begun while taking photographs for the Commons Series. Struck by the vast amount of litter on the ground Andrew started to make small studies from photographs of the crushed cans lying around. This led to these paintings in the tradition of still lives or nature pictures where the natural world has been corrupted.

“Like the sky-glow and distant traffic in the Commons Series, the litter is evidence of life. There are stories behind the discarded cans. Who dropped them? Kids? Clubbers? Businessmen? Were they shared with someone or were they drunk alone? Like the light-polluted sky of the Commons Series, this effect we have on the landscape is a result of how we live now.”