Eight hexagonal black signs covered with circular red reflectors line the dead end of a road with cement barriers. Pipes are stacked in front. A grass-covered hill is behind.

August 6, 2022

These black diamond-shaped signs are fast becoming a motif in my Omaha urban sprawl series. Beyond these scarecrow-like figures lie planned but unfinished avenues leading to eventual homes. There is a dualism about them that intrigues me. On one hand, they are harbingers of new opportunity: new homes, new lives, new stories. On the other, they are a momentary self-imposed dead-end to movement that seems to have no limits.

Eight hexagonal black signs covered with circular red reflectors line the dead end of a road with cement barriers. Pipes are stacked in front. A grass-covered hill is behind.
Omaha, NE. August 6, 2022.
A yield and a barrier sign mark the entrance to a roundabout. The roundabout's exits lead to barriers without roads. A lightpole stands along one side of the roundabout. Rolling hills covered in grass are in the background.
Omaha, NE. August 6, 2022.
A blue dumpster enclosed in a three-sided wooden fence on the edge of a field.
Omaha, NE. August 6, 2022.

Tire tracks on bulldozed dirt below a small hillside covered in prairie and blue sky.
Omaha, NE. August 6, 2022.
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