Photographer Liz Moskowitz spent the last year – as we all have – driving through the guts and gore of TXDOT’s I-35 expansion. All along the frontage road are businesses bearing “we’re still open!” signs, while others are empty husks bearing their new location’s address – or have been leveled completely. (R.I.P. old Chron building and its many rat occupants.) In her new show opening this Saturday at Future Front House, Moskovitz collects half a year’s worth of photographs chronicling the expansion’s impact on the Austin community between Manor Road and 51st. This represents the beginning of a longer project wherein Moskovitz plans to develop the story of I-35 through the people who it impacts, both through her own research and audience contributions – all of which will be donated in its final form to Austin History Center.
– James Scott
Opens Oct. 19, runs through Oct. 29
