Highways are essential these days, to connect the areas of a city and also one to each other. When crossing over highways, I am constantly struck by their size and the number of anonymous people passing by every day. Underneath, the environment is hostile and, just as they connect things from above, they separate the city from below, making territorial socio-economic divisions even clearer.
Claiborne ave, for example, was an important integration space for the Treme people, where they could socialize and walk among the Oak trees. This culture was eroded by the construction of the interstate highway, a dramatic symbol of increasing social inequality and division.
With this photographic series I present different views of a highway. The perspectives seek to represent the way in which the highway system reveals the urban social dynamics of the world, and the ostensive way in which it aggressively unites, separates, and frames the horizon.
