Debris of What-Would-Have-Been

Abstract

In dialogues among eight pairs of photographs, this piece aims to tell a distinct story about modernity’s industrial remains. These dialogues embody the workers’ dream of mass utopia that has come and gone. Images depicting Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities enter into conversation with photographs of Soviet industrial architecture.¹ This juxtaposition of images and text serves the purpose of telling a story about the same thing: the rise and fall of empires, ones ideologically seemingly so different, yet similar in fate.