Easy to see :: Really Sacred
This visual essay begins on Interstate 90 between Elkhart, Indiana and Toledo, Ohio, a completely ordinary part of our national highway system—and that’s the point. This is an inquiry into the ways that social and even religious values are encoded in the infrastructure we pass every day. The essay borrows from Romantic poetic form in moving from a closely observed present into larger questions about distant landscapes. When the essay returns to Interstate 90, readers see it anew as a space that does express the sacred for American society.