These photographs document a journey
by train from Baltimore, Maryland to Boston, Massachusetts on Train Ninety-Nine
during the
Train tracks run through America’s
backyard, enabling the passenger to glimpse an alternative side of people’s
lives. Train Ninety-Nine
summer of 2004. All of the photographs except the title shot were taken from
inside the train itself. It was the artist’s intention to capture
not only the sense of movement but the perception of train travel. Using an
inexpensive Holga camera, she employed the technique
of double exposure to convey the reflection of the train window and the
sensation of viewing the same scene from varying perspectives
as the train passed by.
More relaxed than other modes of transportation, train travel gives one time to
become acquainted with the countryside – an experience
both stress-free and appealing. Traveling by train allows us the leisure to
contemplate another face of America: the open side
of a construction site, a back garden, the city, a bridge from below, or the
restoration of a church. Imagine the possibilities!
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