The transcendence of Chicago’s gyro signs

Here’s an exhaustive collection of Chicago’s gyro signs, lovingly kept by the Gyros Project. They make a case for these things being “accidental art,” and they lay it on a little thick, suggesting “these masterpieces of prosaic art, in which anonymous artisans lovingly render a staple of the culinary underclass, put transcendence on the street corner.” Right. So if you thought these signs were just by-the-book depictions of food that always looks like dog-doo on a stick, and that this project is an amusing result of too much free time, you may be an artless philistine.