Sans signaux

In Sans Signaux (1990), another example of the repurposing of public language, Van Horn and Cutts collect “found” signs to create a kind of travel diary, recording quirky and unusual messages from shop windows in England, France, and Belgium. These simple announcements provide a clear sense of the character of the sign’s (often anonymous) maker and its setting. Removed from their usual contexts—and the book’s title indicates, perhaps, that the artists took each from its original location—these signs also highlight the inevitable idiosyncrasies found in words, phrases, and meanings that are specific to a particular place.--http://visualsyntax.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/an-essay-on-erica-van-horns-work-by-nancy-kuhl.pdf.