T A L L G R A S S

In 2022 I came to the realization that I was more familiar with regions of West Africa and the Amazon than I was much of my own country; I had never so much as laid eyes on any of America’s so-called “flyover states.”

So I devised a solution: a road trip through Middle America, staying off major freeways and toll roads, with very little plan as to where to end up at the end of each day. The goal would be to explore those same square miles with the same fresh eyes and curious mind as I had so many other places. Even more, I would take the trip with a friend who was born and raised in the middle of it all, and see what might come from the overlap of foreign and familiar.