The project was driven initially by these everyday items that feature in our lives, however since being in lock down they has almost stopped being everyday items - at least for me, as I have not left the house since the start.
This really made the notion of time and place hit home, as the project was not now about 'now-ness', but rather about the past and the things that I use to encounter. I think I have started to romanticise road furniture, how great it would be to see a 'stop' sign again.
The end goal is to turn The Road Sign Collection into a colouring book - and the reason for the Firstsite Collectors Group Bursary - made up of continuous line drawing of the road signs. This perhaps further romanticise them.
The second thing that I noticed is that when totally removed from their original context the text used within the signs is so easily transferable to the situation we find ourselves in. I put this down to the largely institutional and warning language used within signs.
give way
end
danger
danger of death
changed prioritise ahead
The reading is of these words in this new context are slightly dark and some are more obviously transferable than others, however it is a great example of how mutable language is and how important context and intention is too.
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