Wait Here I Have Gone to Get Help

Neon Sign. 2006.

The simple phrase spelt out in the sign suggests both an intimate relationship with its author and a situation of danger, neither of which can be fully inferred or understood from the information supplied.

A further tension exists between the supposed urgency and narrative drive of the text on the one hand and the overly elaborate means of the message’s display. In a certain sense, a text most appropriate for a private communication is here turned into a public one, bringing in a host of confusions and amplifications of its status and significance.