Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Keep 'em guessing.

(96 + 15 = 111 hours)

I'm not being facetious when suggesting it was ingenious to paint New Albany's forks in the road in front of buildings that have nothing to do with food and drink.

Say what?

Well, it is now apparent that at some point after the initial plan was announced, it was decided to add forks to selected local attractions, like the Ritter House and the Farmers Market. How these were selected and by whom is a consideration for another day, but the sly strategy's effectiveness cannot be argued. After all, everyone -- even the oblivious non-participating troglodytes -- is talking about New Albany's street-surface forks, trying to figure out why they're painted in this or that location, and not in another, and what it all means in the end.

Assuming this was the intent, good work.





3 comments:

Amy said...

I keep thinking that maybe they had more than one stencil in plan to paint on the road. A star perhaps? Then there was a huge rush on getting them painted and they messed up and just painted all forks.

Randy said...

The Pearl Street forks imply 2-way traffic. Just sayin'.

G Coyle said...

Forks in the road?... I didn't get it.