top of page

Pearblossom Highway

Markers

State Highway 18 CA

Palmdale to Victorville

2000 - 2020

IMG_5824.jpg

For over 20 years, I have been driving the Pearblossom Highway on my annual

pilgrimage from Los Angeles to Montana. 

​

In 2000 I began photographing the tires that dotted the road's shoulder.

Painted, piled, half buried, wire added, reflectors, tape...

Tires as markers, defining how to find home.

I continued to photograph new markers yearly, documenting how they were

modified by time or by their makers.

​

Then they began to disappear.

​

Road improvements.  More houses built.  Cleaning up the landscape.

​

Few, if any remain today.

  • Instagram
bottom of page