Gwynns Falls Under I-95, Carroll Park
(2015) archival pigment print, 12 x 40 inches, ed. of 10.
This view is about 100 yards south of the stream monitoring site, from a paved 'trail to nowhere' constructed in compliance with Federal environmental regulations that required funding to be invested in such an amenity when the highway was being built. However, it merely follows the bank for a short distance and peters out. You can also see the stream bank modifications (the strip of light-colored rocks along the banks) that were built at the same time. I can't help but feel that the 18th-century etcher Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who documented the ancient ruins of Rome, would have appreciated the complex geometry of the construction of the highway overpass and the stream banks below, along with the imposing white columns reminiscent of an ancient Roman temple.
Gwynns Falls Under I-95, Carroll Park
(2015) archival pigment print, 12 x 40 inches, ed. of 10.
This view is about 100 yards south of the stream monitoring site, from a paved 'trail to nowhere' constructed in compliance with Federal environmental regulations that required funding to be invested in such an amenity when the highway was being built. However, it merely follows the bank for a short distance and peters out. You can also see the stream bank modifications (the strip of light-colored rocks along the banks) that were built at the same time. I can't help but feel that the 18th-century etcher Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who documented the ancient ruins of Rome, would have appreciated the complex geometry of the construction of the highway overpass and the stream banks below, along with the imposing white columns reminiscent of an ancient Roman temple.