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The American Road Trip is a particular cultural phenomenon that has been perpetuated both domestically and globally as an exciting endeavor, often steeped in a past where car travel was new and exciting and infrastructure around it was strong and present. Using only a handheld camcorder, I recorded multiple scenes across multiple road trips to try and capture more honestly the feeling of a contemporary American Road Trip: highways that bisect and isolate travelers from the many small locales they pass through, crumbling buildings, endless agricultural sprawl, increasingly frequent data centers and industrial parks, abundant religious and patriotic symbolism. I overlay these images to create a surreal sameness, a foggy American landscape that at once feels lived in and abandoned for some new American dreamscape. Who and what gets left behind in the old dream?