

Photograph on a normal to slightly long lens from above, eight or more identical slim drinks cans lying in tight parallel rows running lower left to upper right at about forty-five degrees, cropped by all four edges and covering the ground entirely, the only dark the narrow channels between adjacent cans, which read as black. Soft directional light across the rows, each can carrying one long soft highlight down its side and the rims catching a bright metal line. Every can is the same design, a traditional animal motif reduced to flat black brush shapes and cropped hard by the pack's bottom edge, on red kraft, with a vertical run of small type in the upper corner, in hot pink, with a mountain drawn in one line as the motif, outlined in a second colour filled with holographic silver fleck, the name Rude Thing, and a barcode used as a design element — the design readable on two or three cans and cropped on the rest. Every colour on the pack is flat with a hard edge and the lettering is one flat colour. Matte painted aluminium with raw bright metal at the rim and the seam, the lettering's fleck catching light at a different angle from the can body. Hard at the can edges and the lettering, soft along the cylindrical falloff. Pure repetition at even weight throughout. Relentless and glossy — a pallet photographed as a texture.