These images were made with a view camera while riding local commuter rail lines. As the train travels outbound from the station, the view through the window creates an unbroken panorama of industrial and rural views.
Attempting to loosely associate these ideas together, the desired metaphor for modernity fails. The final effect is a picturesque view defined by both the constraints of the camera system and the fixed view of the tinted, scratched window. What was once considered an emblem of progress is now only a simulation of nonspecific pastness.