How To Pick Up:
A Photo Essay.

While taking my dog for long walks during the pandemic, I developed a fascination with a very specific type of signage — the iconography, the tools of the trade, the desperate pleas for compliance. I started documenting my findings in hopes that I may learn How to Pick Up. I’m still not sure I know how.

The following is a curated selection of some of my favorites. Enjoy.

The Excavator

The Disembodied Hands

The Putter

The Paintbrush

The Dichotomy of Philadelphia I

The Frisbee

The Threat

The Dichotomy of Philadelphia II

The Fugitive