Have you ever counted the amount of arrows you encounter in your daily life?
We live in a world where many arrows are many arrows shot towards us everyday. Arrows that direct, tease, exhort, sell, cajole us all day long. It’s a curious paradox that although arrows are silent (non-verbal) they are often visually noisy and powerful. Yet like so many Super Ordinary things we grow numb to them and if they are not saving us from imminent danger or directing us to a place we need to find, we tend to ignore them.
We live in a world where many arrows are shot towards us everyday. Arrows that direct, tease, exhorting, sell, cajole….
Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgian illustrator, poster artist and sculptor.
“Folon began as an architectural draftsman, and many of his drawings feature wall after wall of impenetrable skyscraper facades marked with obsessive rows of broken lines that evoke prisons. Another frequent metaphor was directional arrows explosively springing from humanlike figures and other forms, shooting in many directions.” NY TIMES
"Arrows," he once said, "are the symbols of confusion of an entire era. What would happen if, one night, someone were to remove all the traffic signs from the face of the earth?".
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Have you noticed any interesting arrows recently?
Send them to us in a quick email. letting us know where each pic was taken (just the city will do).
Don’t worry about perfect photography. We are more interested in what caught your attention.
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Really looking forward to sharing your observations!
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