There Will Be Signs

There Will Be Signs

Support the Project

Help realize a series of public signs and sculptures in Marfa, Texas. Supporters receive works from the project while directly contributing to its physical realization. The project will also be part of a forthcoming artist monograph.

  1. Collect

    Art print of an at-sign glyph above a drawn desert horizon, leaning against a plaster wall

  2. Own

    Powder-coated aluminum sign carrying a black constructed glyph, propped against a wall beside a potted plant

  3. Realize

    Framed photograph of a yellow cruciform road sign standing in high desert scrub

  4. Build

    Cross of glass blocks lit from within at dusk, laid into the desert floor with mountains on the horizon

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There Will Be Signs is a series of public signs and sculptures for Marfa, Texas. The work borrows the vocabulary of American road signage, its palettes, its regulation shapes, its authority, and turns it toward statements the highway was never built to carry.

The project exists in two forms. A generative system produces digital editions on chain. Fabricated aluminum and steel signs stand in the landscape. Neither is a version of the other. Both are public art, made public by different means.

The work descends from Donald Judd's specificity, Ed Ruscha's deadpan, and the serial roadside poetics of Burma-Shave.

Installation: October 2026, Art Blocks Marfa Weekend.

Contact

Interested in hosting or supporting a work? I'd love to hear from you.

Travis LeRoy Southworth
2026 Art Blocks × OpenSea
Marfa Artist Residency

Or email travisleroy@gmail.com directly.