The shape of things to come

The shape of things to come. 2017.

The future neighbourhood is still an idea pressed into the dirt. Clean new roads sweep through the frame, tracing out the grid long before any house has risen from the soil. The contrast between the pale asphalt and the scarred red earth turns the scene into a kind of drawing, a plan half finished and already cutting across the land. It is both ordinary and unsettling, a quiet record of the moment when open ground becomes a map for the lives that will follow..

24 mm, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, ISO 100