2023
Growing up and living in the American South, I have experienced different realities of the place. I am thinking of the South as an imagined place with a unique visual culture and language, in addition to its geographic reality. Themes such as desire, religion, economic status, and race litter Southern highways. This desolate reality of America is everywhere and nowhere. The culmination of (geographical, cultural) images we have of the South continue to inform our collective idea of the place. It is our makeshift image of the South that becomes the South.