Skirting the margins of the new enterprise culture with anonymity and ubiquity, the leitmotif of the small business guerrilla-fighter. Its presence, tainted by suspicion, is the constant tag of the city landscape. In my research for the painting I walked through the different districts of the city, consciously taking on the role of the Flâneur, as descibed by Charles Baudelaire in the Painter of Modern Life. However, encounters with other pedestrians in this road-bound city were rare: vehicles and architecture became the chief protagonists.
