I wasn't aspiring to be Hemingway in six words
Much as I enjoyed Quentin Newark's critique of the 26 posters project (DW 6 September), he is missing the point. We weren't 'encouraged to take a site as [our] starting point', the brief was categorical - to create a poster that made a pithy, six-word comment or observation about the location in which it appeared. We were being asked to take a mass medium and make it unusually local and specific. So inevitably, when these posters are removed from their context, they become ...
