Words on the Street - Black & White

Words on the Street - Black & WhiteWhile on one of my morning photo outings, these black and white tiles caught my attention. They are a section of a shop's facade. Four inch square tiles with apparently random designs and placement, as if a previous shop owner needed to fix a deteriorating section of storefront and found a box of remnant tiles at a Re store, or in a dumpster; as if the shop's staff had been tasked to decorate blank tiles with black sharpie markers. Or could it all

and I am inspired to photograph them

a series black and white tiles caught my attention

the bold fonts

Palette: Monochromatic with neutral tonality and punchy contrast

and gray scale

This is a detail of a weathered advertisement painted on the side of a building in Madison

It is a composite of three image layers (obviously

Detail of interior wall section of the Milwaukee Art Museum

Ideal for collectors seeking modern

"On ne sait pourquoi" seemed fitting for this transcendental subject

Each curve

but the dream of it