Adair Rest Area along I80 has this pretty fun windmill-themed picnic area.
Tag: Highways
Lonely Remnants
Quiet memorials on lonely highways
I suppose this set is a sequel of sorts to In Between, which might just turn into a long-running project given that I’ve accepted a temporary job in the Idaho desert this summer. This set of images of abandoned structures, grit, and graffiti mostly comes from my drive on a section of old Route 66 from Barstow, CA to Kingman, AZ during a week in February 2019. I’ve also included a few images from Bakersfield and Desert Center that felt like necessary additions.
These old windy highways that have been bisected and chopped up by busy interstates feel like a testament to the explosion of population in the West: tombstones whose pitted asphalt hearkens back to an earlier time and pace. This post isn’t meant to instill or celebrate nostalgia, however; change is a constant. These old remnants of the highway system are an extension of manifest destiny which has simply just changed names and gained new lanes since.
Juxtapose
Layered compositions documenting the human relationship with landscape along US Highways