35 Hours Tracing America's Western Edge

Thirty-five hours between Los Angeles and Seattle on Amtrak's Coast Starlight—a moving threshold where landscape unfolds at a pace the body can actually register. Time dilates. The window becomes frame, the train car a traveling studio where strangers become temporary neighbors and the American West scrolls past like slow cinema.

These images document what happens when forced stillness meets constant motion: the quality of light through train glass, bodies arranged in waiting, the negotiation between public and private space. Between departure and arrival, the train becomes its own place—neither origin nor destination, but the liminal territory where observation sharpens and attention has nowhere else to go.

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