name change, but not just for namesake.

A street sign is meant to be practical. It is meant to give a person direction. It represents a specific location. In reading it, it becomes a gateway to all that that specific street contains- undiscovered thrift stores. coffee shops. bookstores filled with stories. homes filled with people who have stories...

sometimes we know all that lies beyond this gateway. but sometimes we do not. sometimes it is undiscovered territory waiting to be explored.

Van-Gogh-Straße is a street in Dresden, Germany. I took a picture of its street sign because it was unique. It maintained the practicality that a street sign is meant to have- the naming of a location, yet it maintained this practicality in an artistic form- through the medium of paint and free-handed lettering.

Writing, in many cases, is meant to be practical. It is meant to direct and it is meant to give name to things in our world. However, it is also meant to be creative. It is often meant to be free and original. It is meant to evoke some sort of feeling within each person it encounters, no matter what that feeling may be. And it is meant to serve as a gateway to what is unknown.

In my opinion, life functions the same way. It has to be practical, but it also has to evoke creativity. It needs to have some sort of soul, some sort of artistic beauty that encourages discovery of all that is beyond the surface, or entry point.

Hence, Van-Gogh-Straße is born- in an attempt to emulate the co-existing way that writing, and more importantly life, is meant to function. Enjoy.