![]() Another image shows the word “Cafe” scratched into the side of a car door, hoisted up on a pole, a sign for a building that no longer exists. Above, an unlit neon sign in the shape of a truck cuts across the empty sky. Estabrook captures what appears to be an abandoned stop in a vast expanse of land, the signage so worn down that only faint outlines of words are visible on the building’s side. The truck stop, which bloomed across America after President Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the building of over 40,000 miles of new interstates in the 1950s, is one of these relics. “Reed Estabrook: American Roadside Monuments” depicts relics of Americana in vintage prints from the 1970s like Robert Frank before him, Estabrook took to the road, driving West and photographing the sometimes-dilapidated remnants of 1950’s structures and advertising, some still in use, some abandoned. In the 1970s, photographer Reed Estabrook embarked on a road trip, documenting the infiniteness of the land, and the roadside markers that dotted the path along the way, now on view in a new show at Joseph Bellows gallery. ![]() However, the bitterly cold temperatures and almost unrelenting winter makes life on the surface of Reisum nearly unbearable.The cross-country road trip is a distinctively American tradition, driven from a yearning to see the “real” America, to see what lies beyond our insular environments. From the frost covered mountain peaks to the snowy tundra, it is a thing of beauty. The world of Reisum is deceptive in its nature. The Urikki are predators by nature, hunting not only the creatures that inhabit the land but also those that dwell in the vast oceans. These long, slender vessels are adorned with runes and pictograms exalting the clan’s greatest deeds and celebrate its bravest warriors. Urikki tribes often employ ice skiffs to ply the vast distances of the open steppes and patches of exposed sea. A single Warren can contain up to a hundred different families. They have massive families that often number in the hundreds, if not thousands. The Emin cannot endure the harsh conditions of Reisum’s surface, so instead they occupy large underground networks of tunnels. Only the brutal Urikki are hardy enough to thrive in the frigid temperatures and severe conditions. Harsh and unforgiving, the surfaces of Reisum are considered uninhabitable to most. Only a remnant of mankind remains, hunted to near extinction by horrors from another world. The past sins of man lay buried here among the ashes as does the potential solution to severing the Root's grasp on Earth. The first Ward and origin of the top secret Dreamer program. Not even the most remote rural locations were safe from their reach. Once the cities fell, the Root expanded outwards in their unrelenting assault on humanity. The ground is scarred with deep ravines and chasms created when the roots of the massive tree system ravished and upturned the land. ![]() The Canopy is a hotbed of Root activity, and gets its name from the massive arboreal expanse covering the sky and blotting out the sun. ![]() ![]() Earth Subwayīeneath the city sprawls a network of broken subway tunnels and rancid sewage corridors, with enemies lurking in dark spaces and around every twist and turn of the labyrinthine tunnel system. The ruined cityscape reflects the chaos of that time – debris-ridden streets and gutted buildings set against a backdrop of broken skyscrapers. ![]()
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