anti:freeze

unfinished ramp, meant for a highway that was never constructed

I come here to escape the perfect geometry of the downtown grid, to revel in a different sense of this city - as process, as living being, with moods and desires, unrealized dreams, pathologies. Here is a ramp the city never completed, for a highway plan that fell through. Does the bridge feel a phantom exit ramp? Does it long for a truck to crash through the fence and fly out over the river bank?

This ramp even looks like living tissue - a bone or limb in cross section. There are scars and wounds like this all over the city, clues for an autopsy.