Subjective Analysis
Subjective Analysis
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Taking images and finding stories that help shape conversations and possibilities
Old Folks ALL CAPS
A note was left in a shopping basket. I have come across similar several times, sometimes just on the ground. Easily not noticed, yet the font jumps out as ‘Old Folks All Caps’, I suspect. From an age and social bracket where writing skills were just one case, capitalised and clear. From simpler schooling, just enough to get by, lower-case was an indulgence of the next generation.
If you indulge in these messages, they evoke imaginings of a personal history, aspects of time and place, a doorway into particular lives. The language and wording is of elementary essentials, medications, pets, indulgences, another had ‘popsicles’ a treat from a childhood long ago. I imagine the blank look of a teenager fielding a query on popsicles at the supermarket.
In a few characterised strokes, they carry stories, components of lives. Messages in clear sight as relevant as street art.
What if this was a relic that survived our civilisation, a snippet of insight, as an archaeologist might puzzle over a hieroglyph.
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History and moments relics of time
Just an corner of a country store in Roma Queensland, Once covering three stores across the main street, now a range bigger than a department store in a compact space, with hyper efficient guy that new exactly where anything was.
Capturing passing of time, with 6 digit, then 7 digit, then 8 digit phone numbers.
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