Hippy Stir Fry, 2008
The book features two interwoven narratives. The first revolves around photographs of Kurland’s child and herself, disentangled from the images of roads, trains, infrastructure and fellow travellers that Kurland was also making at the same time. The other thread involves Kurland’s photographs of the railroads which traverse the American landscape. Deconstructing the familiar mythology of the railway as a pioneering symbol of modernity, these images observe the reality of the ways these routes carve and stain the landscape, leaving behind barren strips of sun-stained asphalt