A vintage neon sign with the words "Four Aces" and "Gas Food Lodging" against a cloudy sky, with mountains in the background.

Roadside Reveries

The American road is lined with objects built to interrupt the journey.

From desert dinosaurs to roadside sculptures and towering signs, these constructions were made to catch the eye of travellers moving through vast landscapes.

Photographed without the crowds they once hoped to attract, these monuments feel suspended between spectacle and memory. In the quiet that follows the passing traffic, they remain as markers of imagination placed beside the road.

Chapter One: The Mojave

Roadside Reveries traces these curious monuments across the American landscape, beginning in the Mojave Desert.

Photographed across the Mojave Desert, including Palmdale, Twentynine Palms, Cabazon, and Amboy.

A deserted roadside with an old, weathered building on the left and a dirt shoulder on the right. Utility poles with wires extend into the distance, and distant snow-capped mountains are visible under a partly cloudy sky.
Desert highway scene with a wooden utility pole, multiple mailboxes, and a skeleton decoration on one mailbox. Mountains in the distance and a car approaching on the curved road.
Old, rusty sign in a desert landscape with mountains and Joshua trees, reading 'Fuel Stop'.
Old roadside sign for Roy's Motel and Cafe in a desert landscape with mountains in the distance, vintage cars parked nearby, clear blue sky.
A gas pump on a sidewalk outside, with a desert landscape and mountains in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
Vintage roadside sign advertising Four Aces with offerings of gas, food, and lodging, set against a cloudy sky and desert mountains.
An old, vintage green diner with neon sign and weathered exterior, empty and closed.
A human skeleton standing in a desert landscape with sparse bushes and mountains in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
A turquoise wooden house in a desert landscape with sparse bushes and rocky hills in the background under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Pink dinosaur sculpture in an outdoor area with palm trees and a blue sky, with a green dinosaur sculpture in the background.
Large concrete letters spell out "THE TOWN" in a desert landscape with mountains and a blue sky in the background.
Two large dinosaur sculptures, one pink and one teal, face each other against a cloudy sky with sparse trees in the background.
Skeletons dressed in pink robes standing in a desert landscape with a small toy car and a skeleton in the driver's seat.