If you meet the Buddha on the road…
The subversive message of Austin’s visual atrocities.
10 min readNov 18, 2019
Urban hiking in America with its obsessive car culture shocks even the woke walker. I am on the path beside the ugliest street in the universe. Sometimes there’s sidewalk, and sometimes it’s a narrow earthen path pounded down by the passage of feet. As a rule I walk on the left side of the road so I might see that…