SEVEN SUBURBAN HOUSES IN A LINE (EDITED) IN BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS
Somewhere along Route 66 in Bloomington, Illinois, in McLean County, Illinois’ largest county, off of Megan Court, are seven (nearly) identical suburban homes. An architect’s roadside attraction. With their backs perpendicular to Ole Rte 66, these seven developer duplications appear as an odd infant of the suburban cul-de-sac(k)ing occurring in Illinois’ agricultural heartland. With highway-side sidewalks, towering power lines, un-landscaped backyards, and bare concrete slabs as patios, the Seven Suburban Houses in a Line are an especially unsettling depiction of domestic life removed from the city.
Sans the car, rather, utilizing Google Maps, an intentionally and poorly stitched elevation was created with images in order to produce floor plan difference and elevational variance upon the cloned home. In doing so, Seven Suburban Houses in a Line (Edited) now celebrates this foreshortening of the camera imbued with perspectival distortion as a privileged parallax; thus the new image is taken as a new elevational (architectural) truth.
Summer 2024
