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These are 2 of John Jenkins' Battle of Monongahela figures shot against a still from The Road, the 2009 film of Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic novel of the same title. Director John Hillcoat shot the film at 50 locations in 4 states utilizing scenes of urban decay and natural disasters to get the look he wanted and used a washed out palette of blues, greys and sepia for his cinematography. Pittsburgh the site of the 1755 Battle of Monongahela was one of the locations used in the film. The backdrop for my photo was a still from The Road. If in 1755, during the clash of the British & French Empires in North America, there was a utopian view of North America and its bountiful offerings, in our own time that point of view has been replaced by a more dystopian vision that appears in our current artistic expression ranging from literature to popular culture. It made me wonder what Braddock and Washington, both men of the 18th C Enlightenment who believed in human progress might have to say.
