Crossroads documents an intersection facing a rapid urban transition in East New York, Brooklyn. This visual work revolves around dreams for sale in an American landscape made of large scale housing. East New York holds a crossing between Flatlands Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue that includes not only New York City’s biggest Church, but also the U.S. nation’s largest federally subsidized apartment complex. Starrett City is home to more than 15,000 people across forty-six buildings. In a country built on promises, the photographic piece uses a typical urban intersection to look at housing as one of the broken pledges.

Crossroads is about a crossing between past and future, a place of multiple identities, of existences that never look like they do in the commercials, urban plans, or the news. It questions the American dream, whether it is accessible to all Americans or not, and the idea of what homes are. Some visuals serve as intentional breaks from the photographs, placed for the viewer to create their own fiction between promises and realities. The sequence is punctuated by archival TV commercials, current supermarket brochures, discarded newspapers, or dispensed bibles, and architecture renderings of the future area. Through various mediums, the work examines an intersection made of contemporary city dwellers, loneliness, countless windows, homelessness, car culture, pride, and everyday odysseys.