A barber's signboard in Accra is a menu you point at. Gloss house-paint goes straight onto salvaged plywood: a ruled grid of equal cells, one head per cell, front and side and back, each cut numbered or named in chrome yellow beside it.

Nothing is stencilled. Baselines drift, letters are squeezed to fit whatever board is left, every braid and fade is outlined by a loaded brush. The blue field behind it all is brushed on flat and left slightly streaky, and the board's nail holes stay visible.