Itineraries

These drawings track my movements in the second half of September 2010... walking, biking, driving, train-ing. This was supposed to be a long-term project over many months but that never happened.

FREE-WAY

I got a new camera for christmas, just a new point and shoot Casio, but it's nice to be able to take pictures anytime again. Yesterday, on a drive up I-5, I just started snapping away and couldn't stop. The freeway is a strange place, and I think these pictures are even stranger. The cars here are suspended in motion, driven by unknowing subjects, creating oddly voyeuristic and often intimate shots. The sidewise view renders a busy freeway as open, and captures an anonymity of place common here. As much as I can't stand the landscape of a freeway bound culture, I am fascinated by its imagery and its obsession with control against all odds.

California From Above

1. Sidewise view of greater LA/OC showing Palos Verdes in the foreground with (from left) Mt. San Antonio and Mt. Harwood, Anderson Peak, San Gorgonio Mountain, San Jacinto Peak, Modjeska and Santiago Peaks (aka Saddleback mountain).

2. View after takeoff showing the bay and SFO to Pacifica and PCH (lower left).

3. The bay, creeping fog and the Crystal Springs Reservoirs.

4. View over San Luis Obispo to the Sierras.

5. Landing approach showing the Pacific coast from Bolsa Chica to Long Beach.

6. Former Pacific Electric right of way cutting through the sprawl.

7. Saddleback and the Tustin MCAS airship hangars. Landing.

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