On the Side of the Highway
If you’ve ever driven around Montana
then you have seen these crosses. They mark the number of people that have died
on the roads. I drove out here from New Hampshire and when I crossed the
Montana state line these started to appear. I counted them until I got to
Billings and reached over 300 crosses. At first it was just a game to keep me
occupied while in the car but then it was more of a tribute to those that died;
by counting the number I was recognizing that they had died and that it was
noticed. I pass eight crosses twice a day every day when I go up to the barn
and though most days I don’t pay attention to them because it is too early in
the morning, but other days I think of how easy it would be for me to be one of
those crosses that people pass by without thinking about. Maybe it is because I’m
from out of state that these mean more to me because I don’t see them all that
often, but I think that people should pay attention to them and drive more
careful on the roads that way they don’t become a cross that gets overlooked on
the road.
What I did for this project was take a picture of the road and then Photoshop the crosses into it, I was going to take pictures of one of the eight crosses that I pass everyday but it's always too dark when I pass them in the morning. I made the picture of the mountains and road darker and made it look more bleak because it is a bleak thing to think about. I think that it is a successful image in that I hope it will make people think about these crosses next time they see them.
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