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Ordinary is such a common word but when you try to explain what it means it becomes very complicated. What makes something ordinary or normal? Something that is ordinary is generally accepted by the majority of the public to be ordinary. In other words when most people say that something is ordinary it makes it so because ordinary is really all about how you perceive something. If everyone says that a stop sign put at an intersection is ordinary than that’s how people perceive that stop sign. But what happens if you put that same stop sign that everyone thinks is normal and put it in the middle of the street where there is no intersection? Now all of a sudden that same object that was perceived as normal is now “weird” or out of the ordinary. Wolfgang Tillmans has a grid of pictures that is called “Ordinary Objects”. Why would he call these pictures ordinary? In the movie “American Beauty”, Lester says, “Our marriage is just for show – a commercial for how normal we are.” The movie shows how something that is thought to be normal really isn’t; the idea that appearances are deceiving, or judging a book by its cover. It’s interesti