The Writing on the Wall, Reflection on week 10 of #52weeksofWE

 

Here is the description for this week's theme:

Instead of recruiting a person to yell, “Hey, you can’t park here!” or, “Hey! Come on in and enjoy a coffee,” we have this wonderful thing called writing and signs to communicate things we do or do not want people to do. So the question this week is, what does Windsor – Essex want us to do? What are the words up on the walls – of bricks and mortar, of billboards, of digital walls – saying? Are they welcoming or threatening? Did the message work? Do you have a favourite font? Let us know with your camera this week.

Okay, so there weren't any musings on who preferred what font, and why (my personal favourite is Garamond, and Wing-dings), but we did get a couple shots of what Windsor - Essex is trying to tell us. We were told not to have a wake, or idle; we were pointed in the direction of the Tunnel (this would have been a good one for Week 1), and given a picture history of Amherstburg. We were warned that we were under surveillance, and suggested we get some take out pizza from Arcata. One challenger encouraged us to see the history of Ford City through one of its murals, capturing the unwritten story of Windsor's (ongoing) automotive history.

My shot for this week was captured downtown, a riff on Gil Scott Heron's song, The Revolution Will not be Televized. A little sparse this week for other featured photographs from fellow challengers, but you can still see them all by clicking on the Flickr link below.

Revolutionary Writing by Patrick Firth

We go from the minutia of the written word to the sublime, word transcending open vistas of Windsor - Essex next week, the Great Wide Open. Thank you again for all the wonderful submissions, and here is a reminder to check out the rest on Flickr and Facebook.