Whether we like it or not, planned communities and multi-family condos are becoming the future of the American landscape. Vanishing are the rural houses and the vast stretches of farmland – the McMansion has arrived to replace such quaint lifestyles. Documenting this loss is photographer Anne Rowland, whose exhibit Private Property at Hemphill Fine Arts, is a rush of nostalgia for her childhood home and an era that seems to be coming to a close.

Rowland visits decaying farmhouses, old sycamore groves, and other scenes that suffer from destruction or abandonment, and takes thousands of shots with a large format camera. She then scans the pictures and cuts each one into pieces, digitally pasting the sections back together to create a broken image of what once was or is slowly fading away. In Teardown, a bulldozer is in mid-crush of a large, rural farmhouse. Rowland marks in neat cursive on the photo, “Old house being torn down so new owner can build larger house.” Though the equipment is halted in the frame, the jagged patchwork of images shows us the fate of the house, decided as soon as the new owners chose to stretch the boundaries of their suburb into the countryside.