Project Description

Paradise Found is a place-based project that focuses on the characteristics that give neighborhoods, communities and cities a sense of place. Khanh Le and Frank Olive have been walking, driving, taking photographs, and thinking about what defines the city of Syracuse as a place. They will produce a series of fifteen postcards that depict the people, sites, buildings, names, signs, advertisements, and businesses that make up the city’s identity. The postcards will be produced in large quantities and will be available for purchase at participating local venues. The project will then be open for local area residents in Syracuse and in other cities, nationally and internationally, to create images that represent important places, people and things that define their city to them. A selection of these images will be produced as postcards and also made available for purchase.

Interstate 81 and Interstate 690

Interstate 690 is the major east-west corridor within the city of Syracuse. It connects the eastern and western suburbs with Syracuse. The freeway continues northwest as New York 690 north of Interstate 90. Interstate 690 is also one of the few Interstates with a traffic light, but this light is only in operation for a relatively short duration during the Great New York State Fair.