Ethel Shipton’s work focuses on the often-overlooked signs and symbols of urban life. Shipton documents images from text, signs, and graffiti observed on the streets, repurposing them into screenprints and paintings. Her work frequently features texts and colloquialisms in English and Spanish, reflecting the influence of both languages in Texas culture. In Where Are We Going, I, an indiscernible highway highlights the dark underbelly of a Texas city, with road signs reading "Rough Ahead," "Wrong Way," and "Detour." In the accompanying piece, the same highway is surrounded by vines, bluebonnet flowers, and nopales, overlaid with the same road signs, now presented in a different context.