While walking through Bath we saw the light hit the wall of this building just right, making the sign for an old business easy to read. By enlarging the image I am able to just make out some additional words that give hints about what might have been here originally: “Hay Hill Dairy. Devon and Dorset Butter Merchant. Cheese Ham & Bacon Factor. Cream Butter Eggs. Devonshire cream…” and a few more that I cannot decipher.
One reason that I sometimes photograph street art — a different thing than what we see here — is that after it is created others come and add more work on top of it. Eventually, as layers build up, weathering takes over, revealing much older material — some of which starts to connect us to much earlier times. While this is apparently an advertisement rather than graffiti, I think that the effect is similar.
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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra, (Heyday Books) is available directly from him.
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