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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty One: Signs as symbols > Confused, Haifa, Israel, 2011
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17-NOV-2011

Confused, Haifa, Israel, 2011

A visitor emerging from the Port of Haifa and entering the city itself will be confronted by this bewildering mass of signage, much of it in Hebrew. A line of traffic flows around a person who pauses in the grass, seemingly overwhelmed by the confusing mélange of arrows, symbols, warnings, and directions. It is an incongruous scene, perhaps making sense to an Israeli viewer, but certainly a daunting experience for a foreign visitor. (I did not have to worry – I made this image through the front window of a tour bus. I assumed our driver knew where he was going.) All of this history becomes secondary to the moment at hand.

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Phil Douglis09-Feb-2012 23:03
I don't know much about Talmudic debate, Iris, but if this be what it is all about, I am glad that I don't have to engage in it. I love your interpretation -- "the mystery of signage and its place in the universe" is a good starting point for a thesis on the relationship of theology to advertising.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)07-Feb-2012 03:16
A metaphor for the Jewish Talmudic debate. What is the mystery of signage and what is it's place in the universe?
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