Magic Mountains, Magic Cities

This work has grown out of conversations with Gardner's mother, about the place that she and Gardner grew up in, Fairfield, Alabama, a model city for U.S. Steel Corporation. Fairfield, a city that lives at the Western border of Birmingham, Alabama, is and was an experiment, in spatial-racial-class separation and segregation. These divides were not obvious. The planners used nature -- soil, earthen berm's, treelines, and dead-end streets to scar the landscape. She says "We lived inside the edges".