‘USA: The Road (West Coast)

An early search for stillness, story, and the dust-covered backbone of the American dream.

Shot during the earliest days of my photography journey, USA: The Road (West Coast) was born from a need to get lost. Influenced by the imagery and themes of The Grapes of Wrath, I followed the desert roads, gas stations, and sun-cracked towns that stretch between California’s coast and interior.

These photographs trace the feeling of movement across space and history: the faded optimism of roadside motels, the absence that lingers in empty parking lots, the weight of stillness in places built to be passed through. More than just Americana, this is the desert as metaphor, a place to lose yourself.