This is the sign I stole. There must have been reflective stripes where the red is now, as that chevron was white with bits of brittle adhesive still stuck to it. The black was much paler, too. In fact it was fairly ordinary when I finally got down to working with it and a lot more scrapes had to be added to visually tie the chevrons together. Plus the graffiti, which is always fun.

It started off attached to a large canvas-covoured  board, with the stones and dirt glued to it and a blueish sky, like a picture, but it got better when I took it apart, attached the sign to slices of an ancient square post and screwed the posts onto a piece of MDF board, which was then covered with a mixture of  epoxy and Flinders mud. The Flinders stone chippings were scattered on top and pressed into the epoxy. Coating the stones in epoxy made them highly glossy, glittery and very nasty, so they have been sealed with a matt varnish.

I wrapped a dropper in rusted chicken wire, and tied it all together tightly with black baler twine, bought specially for the purpose, bolted it to the MDF board and it looked awful. So I slid the whole bundle of wire and twine off the dropper (it will look terrific somewhere else) and attached screwed up bits of rusty fencing wire to it. It still looked awful, so I wrapped it up with the baler twine and finally got the effect I'd wanted. Black and tightly bound.

Then I painted the shadows and the yellow stripe and it was finished