RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA.- The Wignall Museum at Chaffey College will present the exhibit Invisible Trajectories: Passing Through the Inland Empire through March 3, 2007. The Inland Empire is synonymous with rapid mobility and unimpeded movement. It is the home of nine major freeways, and functions as the distribution hub of a number of transnational corporations. It’s past and present have been built on its logistical role as the locus for an ever expanding transportation web, but a few questions are now starting to emerge: How long can the region’s vision of increased flows continue into the future? And how will the people of this region imagine this place as the demise of cheap energy, and the inability to support fragmented and unsustainable building patterns, slowly grinds the region’s future plans to a halt?

The Invisible Trajectories project, featuring the work of urbanist Claude Willey, artist Deena Capperelli and photographer Mark Tsang, will function as a story archive about the experience of traveling and observing the landscape of the Inland Empire at the end of the age of oil. The stories will be told with maps, web logs, photographs and travel documents; as well as through personal accounts collected and reassembled in an effort to understand the Inland Empire’s increasingly heightened movement patterns that continue to define the region as perpetually transforming, continually blurred, overwhelmingly dynamic and arguably placeless.

This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council’s statewide California Stories Initiative. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.