Matthew Sleeth’s Abandoned Umbrellas #20 [Tokyo] (2004)Image courtesy of Matthew Sleeth
Artist Matthew Sleeth Visits an Umbrella Cemetery
Apparently umbrellas are crappy the world over: Here lies a pile of them discarded on a drizzly Tokyo street (and notice the girl toting a freshly wrapped one in the background hasn’t learned her lesson — they’re not worth your yen!). Matthew Sleeth is showing his wily urban images, taken mostly in Japan and China, at Aperture Gallery through May 17. —Emma Pearse
Artist Matthew Sleeth Visits an Umbrella Cemetery
