Sidewalk dining
Authentic memorabilia
Junction scramble
The clean and clear high desert air enhances object demarcation, as old memories fuel new experience.
“It’s a sign of a good diner to have customers who are stuck in time. A well-known rule of eating is that if there are no time-loop customers, the place probably isn’t worth even ordering a plate of fries.” – Joseph Fink
Juncture disruption
Connection arrow
Warning resource
Encoded to construct an action response, roadway symbols promote behavior modification.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
Getting nearer
Going through
The movements
Outsider art emerges successfully on the street, momentarily arresting attention.
“I’m curious about life, period.” – Graham Nash
Surf boutique
Beach fashion
Cover up
Clever names play on phraseology open to multiple interpretations.
“Poets are people who never forget they were born naked.” – Marty Rubin
Background foundation
Conception reckoned
Syntactic order
The past is inscribed in the present.
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. Churchill
Frozen cubes
Chilled product
Vary by market
On the side of a convenience store, solid state water in bags.
“We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.” – Bat Masterson
Negative concept
Enunciation function
Collective disposition
Messages depend on context framing.
“Seen from this perspective, theoretical expression no longer comes between social object and praxis.” – Felix Guattari
Last one to doubt
These circumstances
Meaning ambiguous
Sometimes cryptic messages are found on the back of conventional road signs.
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” – Jules Verne
No stopping
No fireworks
No bonfires
Life is full of capricious regulations. Arbitrarily invented rules often withdraw, only to be replaced by another new set of rules.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Short term
Parking stall
Set aside
Direct imaginative engagement with strategies of extraction and reassembly push aesthetic boundaries. A brief object encounter can trigger surreal narrative passages, transporting meaning into unlikely abstractions transcending quotidian affairs.
“The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.” – Kurt Schwitters