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New sign!
The Bend Store · February 9, 2018
In the story: 7. They got there, 2011–2021.
A shop on Wall Street put the emblem over its door in February 2018 and photographed it nineteen times between then and July 2026.
The caption is two words and an exclamation mark, and they date the object almost to the day. On 9 February 2018 The Bend Store photographed its new storefront sign at 815 NW Wall Street: The BEND [emblem] STORE, painted letters on a dark board under a glass-block transom, with the disc doing the work of the space between the two words.
Eighteen later posts photograph the same sign — at night, in snow, behind a Boy Scout troop, behind the staff, over a window of rainbow T-shirts — and every one of them is in this record's ledger rather than on a page of its own. That is what the ledger is for: one object, one drawing, nineteen sightings, one route.
The drawing in the sign is the shop's house mark, which this archive already holds on the record of the shop's classic sticker and which is the Downtown file's construction. It is not filed again as a second drawing; a sign and a sticker carrying one artwork are one drawing on two objects.
Seen in use
19 dated sightings, 2018–2026. Each is a record of this object or this drawing somewhere else, and where a picture is hosted it is a documentary crop of the object, credited to whoever holds it.
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February 9, 2018 The Bend Store · The new storefront sign, a hoodie on a mannequin and a tee in the window Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Be_elv-gvty/ -
March 2, 2018 The Bend Store · Vinyl decal on the shop window Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf1I96ng147/ -
January 6, 2019 The Bend Store · Storefront sign: the disc in orange capitals inside a teal ring Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTl3PhhX1W/ -
February 25, 2019 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, behind a group photograph in snowfall Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BuUeuYygNK2/ -
April 8, 2020 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, with small disc decals on the door glass Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vf17phGWp/ -
March 8, 2022 The Bend Store · The shop window at night: the disc sign, and hoodies and tees carrying the disc Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca1wbU_reKX/ -
July 15, 2022 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, with trucker hats and door stickers carrying small discs Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CgDXaEVrQVs/ -
February 16, 2023 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, beside a solar-panel announcement Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CovF3Msp1F9/ - June 27, 2023 The Bend Store · Boy Scouts group at storefront; BEND disc sign and rainbow BEND disc tees in window Photograph of the object · instagram.com No crop is hosted. The sign is above a posed group and the crop carries a row of faces across its top. The same sign is pictured on this record from fifteen other sightings with nobody in them.
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July 6, 2023 The Bend Store · Staff group at storefront; BEND disc sign and BEND disc tees in window Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuYtl76gRRR/ -
November 22, 2023 The Bend Store · The storefront sign at night, the disc in orange Frame from a video · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz9TZVOLPSw/ -
January 13, 2024 The Bend Store · The snowy storefront in reel frames, the disc sign in the middle and the last Frame from a video · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2DqDyqNLgn/ -
August 2, 2024 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, and a blue tee with a white disc on a mannequin Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-MCaNFS1G3/ - October 18, 2024 The Bend Store · Staff at the storefront, the sign above them cut off at the top of the frame Photograph of the object · instagram.com No crop is hosted. The frame is a photograph of the storefront with the sign cut off at the top, and what the crop keeps of the emblem is a blue arc: the object is in the picture and cannot be read off it.
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November 30, 2024 The Bend Store · The storefront at dusk, the disc sign in orange Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDBA_a9yB9V/ -
June 8, 2025 The Bend Store · Door-glass decal: the shop’s lockup with the disc in red Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKpqcT6Sxxf/ -
January 30, 2026 The Bend Store · Storefront “The BEND STORE” sign with BEND disc Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUJWRX8El5A/ -
May 11, 2026 The Bend Store · The storefront sign, and discs hanging in the window Photograph of the object · instagram.com The Bend Store; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYNLyBIFDGk/ - July 4, 2026 The Bend Store · Storefront “The BEND STORE” sign with BEND disc; group photo Photograph of the object · instagram.com No crop is hosted. The frame is the street — sky, wires, a neighbouring sign, balloons — with the shop's sign small in the middle of it. A documentary crop is a crop of the object, and there is no crop of this one that is not most of a photograph.
