This piece began with a walk through Waltham, Massachusetts, searching for compositions reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s painting Prospect Street. Although based on a location in Gloucester, Connecticut, Prospect Street–like much of Hopper’s work–creates through realist methods a common visual vocabulary of small American cities at beginning of the last century.

Can searching for Prospect Street lead us into other times, or at least raise useful questions about how they have passed?