From Maura's website:
"Postcards of Muncie, Indiana landmarks dating between 1910-1930 are composited with the same landmarks as they exist (or not) today. Wish You Were Here addresses changes in the cultural and economic landscapes of Muncie, Indiana over the past 80 years. At the turn of the 20th century, Muncie was a thriving industrial city due in part to the Indiana Gas Boom years earlier which had attracted numerous businesses to the area. With the decline of manufacturing Muncie (like many cities in the Midwest) has seen a decline in jobs and population, leaving behind a landscape of empty downtown streets crumbling homes. Remarkably, it retains a strong sense of civic pride as the city struggles to reinvent itself. This is an excerpt featuring seven locations from this ongoing project."
Wish You Were Here (2012) from Maura Jasper on Vimeo.
My favorite part of Maura's composites is the ghostly in-between; suddenly a child appears from 2012 just as older family fades away on the same porch. Wish You Were Here describes so many dilapidated towns in the Rust Belt that it shocks me when the present day view depicts a scene more positive than the original.