A few Laotian temples do not allow photographers to make pictures inside of them. I was fascinated by this sign, wrapped in ruined film and anchored by a beer can. I found it incongruous in itself to be actually making a photo of a no-photos-allowed sign. There were several levels of incongruity at work here, and I tried to take advantage of all of them. In many ways, the camera and medium itself are incongruous in this context. The primitive drawing of a vintage single lens reflex camera and the actual spool of exposed film seem in some ways to be as archaic in their way as the ancient temple is in its way. Removing exposed film from a camera and wrapping it around the sign uses incongruity to make its own point. The use of the beer can, as an anchor for the sign is also incongruous, considering it stands on what I presume must be sacred ground. I placed the exposed film in the lower left hand corner of my frame so that it leads the eye up to the sign. I placed the sign off to the left, incongruously comparing its aging design with the aging façade of the temple itself to its right.