TORONTO ON, CANADA EGG SHAPED FOOT PEDAL CAN
Soft. Fluid. Ample with unnecessary caverns of unusable space. This is the Egg Shaped Foot Pedal Can. This Can thought of everything. The Can’s desperate enthusiasm to be not just seen, but ‘known’ is impossible to ignore. We approach the Can’s concrete welcome mat and see the same configuration of Garbage Holes we first saw in the Can’s brother Can, the Rectangular Blistered Can. With two Recycle Holes this Can is screaming 'Seriously I LOVE the environment. It’s, like one of my passions’. Unlike the brother Can, the Rectangular Blistered Can, the Egg Shaped Foot Pedal Can Garbage Holes confront us, closed. Sealed entrance points requiring a hidden key. It seems to take an interest in the possibility of recycling my Now Magazine now covered in burrito sauce. We minimize the space between us to inject soggy paper into Recycle Hole One. Or Two. The flap, a dedicated gatekeeper, flaps back towards the intruding paper with such force it leaves the User showered in Recycle Hole Garbage Water and burrito sauce. We are sticky but we are still intrigued. We fold the paper. Making it a compact bomb ready to blow open the gates that obstruct it from the final darkness. The flap flaps again with petulance of a angry child. We stand with the Can. Lightly drizzled with a picante film. We are defeated. The Can has won. We rest our hand on the arch of the Can’s dome and take a lean. Suddenly, glistening in the sunlight, we see an invitation embossed in metal. 'Press’. Our feet tingle and our hearts begin to race. We stomp on the Press with unbridled enthusiasm. The sound of mechanism. The absence of movement. The Litter flap opens wide and says 'hello’. Recycle Flap One and Two remain sealed mid bite of a burrito flavoured free magazine.