“America reinvented that paradise, described so briefly and vauely in the book of Genesis, called it Suburbia and put it up for sale.”
Despite being all over the place about making work the last few months, I’ve been thinking about three key motivating factors for making a sprawling, semi-coherent body of work about what it means to live, work and die in a landscape that has no here and therefore, has no there. Or, in other words, what it means to live in the generic, consumer-driven, suburban, car-centric United States. One: I recently finished James Howard Kunstler’s Geography of Nowhere. Two: I’m moving home, to Allentown, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Three: I drive everyday,... Read the Rest →
