14 July 1996

Subtle Linguistic Differences

I once made a series of photographs of English urinals. I was going to publish them as The British Urinals of Photography as an appropriate companion to a periodical called The British Journal of Photography. My plan was ruined, though, when I found that the Brits say yer-EYE-null, which doesn't rhyme at all with journal.

I'm not too disappointed, though; The British Urinals of Photography never was a very good idea. The muse(s) work(s) in ways quite mysterious.