DEATHSCAPES

2015

Deathscapes have multiple meanings, differing between those who build, maintain and interpret them.

Handbuilt crosses and memorials pepper the American interstate and highway system, makeshift shrines kept by family members or friends of the deceased. These roadside memorials differ from a gravesite as they do not mark where a body is buried, but rather the spacial juncture of asphalt and collision, the geographic point where life left the body. Suddenly, unexpectedly, and away from home.

Plastic flowers, stuffed animals, dates, no dates, names, no names, kept and unkempt,  trinkets and treasures, cans and bottles, hand scribbled messages, solar-powered lights, piles of rocks, necklaces, faded photographs, wreaths…