Crushed Long Drink Can
PHOTOGRAPHER: ARTHUR BELEBEAU
Crushed into an hourglass shape, this can shows both of its ends at once: the pull tab at top, the bare aluminum base below, folded together until they nearly touch. The teal skin between them survives only in fragments, too torn to read as anything but color.
This is The Finnish Long Drink, a canned gin cocktail from Finland known for its teal color and slim can. Belebeau's high-contrast "poppy lighting" turns the two round ends into matching mirrors, echoing Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans in its use of the seductive visual language of consumer culture to consider what remains after consumption.
The piece continues Belebeau's ongoing series of crushed cans, this one built around doubling and symmetry rather than a single dominant brand mark.
It appeals to collectors drawn to object-as-icon photography, geometric abstraction, and the way Belebeau keeps finding new structural possibilities within the same recurring subject.
Edition of 15.
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Product will be ready to ship in approximately 6 weeks.
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Size choices refer to paper size. Image size is affected when it includes a border or no border. The wood frame is in addition. Dimension of the frames are:
- 1” Face, 2 1/4” Depth for black frames
- 1” Face, 2” Depth for White painted frames
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