In a world of limitation and regulation, how aware are you of the restrictions placed on your own existence? In this collection of signs discovered all over Planet Earth, the artist and photographer Paula Sweet documents the shrinking area of personal freedom and encourages us to rethink the contrary: if a sign is to be placed, should it not encourage us to some productive or positive action?

My vision scrolls like cinema as I walk. I see things as they move towards me. I snap when I cannot contain myself .

The 3-line poems included in this volume tell the story of a 40-year journey. Brief meditations on life, love and longing, they record a search for illumination in a perplexing world.