Suburban Sprawl

I first began photographing in these “pop up” neighborhoods while visiting a friend who lived in one. I soon noticed that they were sprouting up everywhere there was once farmland. These clusters of mcmansions with three car garages were all arranged without any common area, are clearly were meant to be houses, not homes in a community. These unoccupied streets are named after the natural elements their construction replaced. The straight photographs did not convey this sense of eerie isolation or the environmental impact so I began to manipulate the images in Photoshop. This is what I really see when I walked these streets. This work is a digitally altered photograph printed on canvas, on stretcher bars with wire hanging system.