{"id":84,"date":"2021-12-07T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:50:08","slug":"an-empty-sign-looks-like-a-potential-art-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/an-empty-sign-looks-like-a-potential-art-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"An empty sign looks like a potential art billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking home from some errands when I noticed this empty sign on a busy street near my home. I can see a very faint trace of the former sign for one-time men&#8217;s hair replacement center, but it looks like they turned it inside out so that the blank back side would fill the space in this sign.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought was: &#8220;this would be a good place to install some art.&#8221; And my second thought, now that I know it used to be a sign for a hair-related business, is that it would be a good place to put a painting that features hair! Here&#8217;s an imaginary art installation featuring a painting I made back in 1991, titled &#8220;At The Bar.&#8221; This is certainly better than a blank white sign, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2588\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-billboard-franklin-ave-belleville.jpg\" alt=\"concept for an art billboard on a local street in NJ\" width=\"850\" height=\"777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-billboard-franklin-ave-belleville.jpg 850w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-billboard-franklin-ave-belleville-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/art-billboard-franklin-ave-belleville-768x702.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concept for an art billboard featuring one of my paintings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking home from some errands when I noticed this empty sign on a busy street near my home. I can see a very faint trace of the former sign for one-time men&#8217;s hair replacement center, but it looks like they turned it inside out so that the blank back side would fill the &#8230; <a title=\"An empty sign looks like a potential art billboard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/an-empty-sign-looks-like-a-potential-art-billboard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about An empty sign looks like a potential art billboard\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[96,419],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-by-mark-mckinney","category-virtual-exhibition","tag-art-billboard","tag-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}