I am traveling with Adventure Cycle Association on a 93 day trek across the USA. We left with our back tire in the water at Yorktown, Virginia and will end with our front tire in the water in Florence Oregon! I am the youngest person on the trip (I’ll turn 21 on May 21, 2010 in Berea, Kentucky) the oldest person on the tour is 68. (He is quick too!) We come from all over the world; Canada, Norway, England, Germany, and all over the USA. Our journey is a wonderful one with its ups and downs please feel free to follow my blog as we make our way west.
I am a photography major at Virginia Commonwealth University, so along the way I will be photographing everyone I meet. The images I take day by day of us riding I will put up and share as soon as I can post, for everyone to see.
Hope you enjoy!
Understanding the restraints we put on ourselves and the social restraints we are bound by has led me to pursue a journey, where I will document photographic evidence of confined freedom. I have a desire to document individuals and record visually their unique story. Everyone is confined by some type of restraint, whether implemented by themselves, their surroundings, or limits set by society. I will be photographing individuals I come in contact with spanning coast to coast. Traveling from Virginia to Oregon, I will be exploring the different American regions, to gain a range of variables. I will travel by bicycle, with a group of 14 cyclists. By traveling with a guided tour, I will be in direct parallel with the individuals I am photographing. The confined freedom I will face while traveling by bicycle spans physical, social, and self confinement. Like many others my freedom has limitations, and is shaped by the world around me, due to safety I can not complete this journey on my own. Another limitation I will be facing is the predetermined path. Traveling by bicycle will create a self reliant freedom. Allowing myself to be very vulnerable, this will create the most direct connection with people, while still being figuratively and very literally locked to my bicycle. The outcome of this adventure is a photographic representation of this journey; exploring individuals that depict the conflicting concept of confined freedom. A gallery showing of the final images will be held at the Student Art Space.
December 4, 2009 pay $700.00 deposit for trip
May 4, 2010 leave Williamsburg, VA
Week 1: traveling through Virginia, hitting the tidewater Piedmont regions
Week 2: leaving Afton, traveling up the Blue Ridge Parkway
Week 3: entering into Kentucky
Week 4: central Kentucky, crossing Ohio River into southern Illinois
Week 5: Chester, Illinois, cross the Mississippi river on the ChesterBridge
Week 6: enter into Kansas
Week 7: continuing through central and western Kansas, until Colorado
Week 8: Pueblo, Colorado marking the half waypoint in the tour
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