OPEN SIGN & LAURA

Laura is a shopgirl, she lives in a shop. The frontage is long gone and the betting slips and the shouting, the smell of bread too, it was a bakery before it became a betting shop in the 60s. When Laura was at college, home was another old shop, an off license on the Brighton sea front. The vast shop floor was used for parties, bands set up on the ground floor and DJs played in the basement. Living in the old offy made her more conscious of shops, in particular of their signage, the painted drop shadows and the ‘open’ signs with back to front letters scratched onto paper. She’s had her own sign made in neon. Like the handwritten ones she loved, tacked to various doors, this one has a back to front N. It hangs in her home waiting for the day she opens her very own shop.

29 Apr 2012