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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty One: Signs as symbols > Restrooms, Chemult, Oregon, 2008
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16-SEP-2008

Restrooms, Chemult, Oregon, 2008

The large scale of the faded Restrooms sign on this abandoned service station is even more incongruous given the battered context in which I place it. The sign is offering a service to customers who will never again use it. The dilapidated wall and overgrown yard symbolically tell us so. The door remains stoutly locked, but its scarred surface tells us of the blows it has received from vandals.

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Phil Douglis27-Sep-2008 19:43
The sign is plural because there must have been two restrooms residing in one here -- it all depended upon the gender using it at the moment.
Tim May27-Sep-2008 19:09
There is an irony here. The door is a single one yet the sign is plural.
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