WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME NOW
«This project took place on my first real visit to the Midwest. I tried to capture both the manufactured and manicured landscapes off the highways and carparks as well as the small town nuances. Its set both in Iowa and Wisconsin. What struck me were the interesting mundane-ness of the supermarkets, swathes of concrete landscape and perfectly managed terrain.
I tried to offset this against the small town vernacular that exists off the exits of the highways: factories, street corners and garden furniture. The grain factory and railroad that snakes away; houses, gardens and the objects discarded within. The alleyways that seperate neighbours and confuse an outsider.
The personality of the neighbourhoods and how the lines and boundaries between the two may blur. The title came after I returned and I was looking through th ephotographs and tried to figure out what that representation of the landscapes meant to me in regards to memory, especially in a setting and topography so stylized in the psyche.»
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