Beeline Highway Florida

The Florida Everglades has succumbed to the harsh environmental assault of sugar cane farming and residential development. In this series, Goodine references the role of photography in establishing land reform and preservation since the late nineteenth century; she emphasizes the land itself as an overwhelming presence. Traversing the state from the Gold Coast to the Gulf of Mexico, Goodine began Beeline Highway at the dying Coral Cove Beach. The journey took her through drought-ridden alligator habitats, lush golf courses, celebrated state parks, industrious orange groves, canal-fed sugar cane fields and, finally, the white sands of the Gulf of Mexico. Florida, once an environmental utopia, represents the barometer for the environmental health of a nation.