Badlands Road Map

The Badlands — Exploration Print

This exploration print features the Badlands of South Dakota and is part of the Road Map series—created to connect photography with the experience of moving through vast, open landscapes. Rather than focusing on a single destination, this piece reflects the feeling of traveling through terrain that unfolds gradually, shaped by distance, light, and time.

Overlayed onto the photograph is the primary roadway that cuts through the Badlands, labeled by name and mapped across the image. A subtle location marker indicates the general area where the photograph was captured, offering context without anchoring the image to a precise point. This approach mirrors the nature of the Badlands themselves; expansive, shifting, and best experienced as a continuous journey rather than a single moment.

Designed as interactive artwork, this print invites the viewer to trace the road, follow it through the landscape, and engage with the place beyond the frame. Whether remembering long drives through layered formations or imagining a future return, The Badlands Exploration Print serves as a visual entry point into a landscape defined by scale, solitude, and movement.