I was look­ing through the Brown Paper Bag Flickr group (have you joined yet?) and found the work of Megan Char­land, a grad­u­ate stu­dent at Visual Stud­ies Work­shop in the Visual Stud­ies MFA pro­gram.

Megan writes about her project, Drive By, on her blog:

Drive By is a series of pho­tographs I shot while sit­ting in the back seat of a car. As a pas­sen­ger my gaze nat­u­rally went out the win­dow watch­ing this unfa­mil­iar neigh­bor­hood pass in a blur. My eyes focused in on the houses. My work in gen­eral deals with my desire to set­tle down. Own my own house. Con­struct my own home. I’m con­stantly on the move for one rea­son or another. What I’m left with is an idea. The ideal house. This per­fect house, this idea, this con­structed shape I used as a viewfinder on the land­scape. This shape, a men­tal pic­ture in my head, I dig­i­tally con­structed post drive-by for this series. What you’re left with is the result of my per­sonal obses­sion: a sin­gle form rep­re­sent­ing both pos­si­bil­ity and limitation.

I find the shapes of Megan’s houses to per­son­ally be both com­fort­ing and a source of dis­con­tent. Hav­ing grown up in the sub­urbs, the warmth of my par­ents’ home is quite nos­tal­gic, yet the banal­ity of the sub­urbs makes me never want to build my life there.

All images via Flickr. Check out her blog and web­site.

Also lik­ing these pieces as well (not from Drive By):