Dara means star in Khmer and this sign for a music group had sufficient star quality to make it onto my acquisitions short list. Following the purchase of the original hand-painted sign, the business owners have taken less than a month to replace it with a printed sign with identical copy and imagery (see below).
It goes without saying that I think a lot is lost from the original and part of me regrets the role that I have played in this small change to Kratie’s streetscape. What do you think of the two incarnations of this sign and my role in bringing the original down?
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