To
create Paved With Good Intentions, Inland Mexican Heritage spent nearly two
years collecting materials as part of Living on the Dime: A View of the World
From Along I-10, gathering stories and images in communities from San Bernardino
Valley to the Colorado River. On the freeway, off the beaten track, during public
programs, personal interviews, and chance meetings on the road, we visited the
land and people that make up this vast region called Inland Southern California,
asking those we met, ‘How did the freeway change our communities and the
environment, and where do we go from here?’
For many along the Dime, ‘progress’ and ‘growth’ are
one and the same and tend to be accepted without much thought, or as an inevitable
consequence of American cultural tendencies. Meanwhile, cities from Blythe to
Banning and Beaumont to Bloomington continue to be deeply affected, for better
or worse, by large-scale road and land development since the mid Twentieth Century
with growth and progress most often occurring at the expense of rural communities,
open space, and older suburban neighborhoods.
In pursuit of highly selective notions of ‘beneficial use’ an unholy,
if convenient alliance between governments and land development interests are
increasingly determined and quite skilled at eliminating existing built and
scarce open space. But as determined as these sometimes overwhelming forces
can be, individuals, groups, and entire communities are organizing, engaging,
and working toward a different reality for the environment, their health, and
their futures. The stories, pictures, and time people shared with us are now
part of our collective California heritage. We are proud to present this exhibit
and invite you to experience what for all of us associated with the project
felt to be a sometimes heartbreaking, at times uplifting, and always captivating
experience.
Paved With Good
Intentions
Multimedia Exhibition
On tour through Winter 2006
Riverside, CA
Community Art Association Gallery Opens June 15
Pomona, CA
LA County Fair/Millard Sheets Gallery
Opens September 9
www.fairplex.org
Living on the Dime
Preview screenings
Banning, CA
June 22, 7PM
Banning Public Library
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Contact
IMH * info@mexicanheritage.org * * (951)
536-9750 * * PO Box
1413 Redlands CA 92373 *