eastside (part 3)

Rusty Bottle Cap

Found next to the Taco Bell Weave

Found over by the Suntrust bank in the parking lot.

Nails and stuff

Picked up all along the journey

Corroded Rubber

Picked up outside of Gallatin Road Tire

Corroded Rubber

Picked up outside of Gallatin Road Tire

Envelope

Stolen from the Pawn shop after they wouldn’t let me interview them

Electrical Wire

Picked up over by Jerry’s house under the bridge.

Electrical Wire

Picked up over by Jerry’s house under the bridge.

Car Freshener

Picked up in the parking lot to the graffiti building

Dry cleaning Tags

Found outside McPhearson Cleaners

Faygo wrapper

Bought at the Inglewood Drive-In Market and consumed at Bolton’s with my fried chicken..

Hall Pass?

Found outside Jere Baxter ALC

Part of a Marlboro Cigarette pack

Found outside the old Caudle Vet’s office.

Receipt for copies

Found behind Bolton’s

Piece of a broken bottle

Picked up by Street Customs in the road

Piece of plastic– I’m not sure what it is

Found by the old weathered building that used to be a silk screen place

Price Tag

Found stuck to a telephone pole

Feather

Found floating through the air

Piece of glass from someones car window

Could be found anywhere on the street out here

Some sort of receipt for something

Found stuck to a bus bench

Some sort of receipt for something

Found stuck to a bus bench

Can Lid

Found in alley beside Eastend Appliances

Piece of painted wood

Picked up on the steps of Instant Rental

Guitar Pick

Found in the parking lot of the old Krispy Kreme

Rusty Battery or something?

Found on the street beside the weirdly shaped aluminum building

Calendar from Household Pawn

Also stolen when they wouldn’t let me interview them

Octopus Card

Found outside of Beauty and Beyond

Calendar from Household Pawn

Also stolen when they wouldn’t let me interview them Lottery Tickets

Found everywhere you look on the ground

colors

colors

I ended up with hundreds of pictures of East Nashville at the end

from all my photo shoots and footage. I needed a way to approach the

project and this huge amount of photos that was easy for me to under-

stand and wrap my head around. So I decided to split the pictures up

into categories so that they would be more organized. The categories

I immediately came up with when looking through the pictures were

color categories– the signs along the street and buildings are all bright

colors, which split easily up into red, blue, yellow and white catego-

ries. I cropped the photos down for this section of the book so that they

would function as textures and be more abstract than some of the other

chapters. In this chapter we look back at Gallatin Road and see all the

uniqueness and beauty that is present there in the details.

red

blue

yellow

white

eastside,i love youalways.

eastside,i love youalways.

So this is my look at East Nashville through the study of Gallatin Road. I hope

you have enjoyed this look at the street which is the heart of East Nashville and

connects the hip trendy side with the more urban grit of old East Nashville. I

want to thank every place I went into, whether they spoke to me or not, they

are the reason this project is so full of life and vitality, and they are the ones

who make East Nashville so unique and interesting. I do want to see this street

change. I want the crime to stop and the fear to become a thing of the past. But

I believe that the history and uniqueness should be preserved and I understand

that this is what makes it so special. I have wanted to do this for a long time,

because this area speaks to me and my childhood. I have loved every moment

of this experience because I love this place. It is my home and where I know I

have a place in this world.