Rooted & Remembered preserves vanishing American places through story, time, memory, and the road. Every project is the same engine, pointed at a different subject.
Each project leads with a different lens — the one that fits its subject best. All four are always underneath.
The Mother Road as a place over time — kitsch, neon, diners, motor courts, and natural wonders. Plan the drive. See what's still out there.
America's neon signs, investigated across a century — lit, moved, gone. National in scope. The specialist lens on the light that defined an era.
A person's life anchored to the places they lived — Observe pointed inward, with a loved one. The narrated story of a life in places.
A town, a route, a building, a craft. The next subject slots in here — same engine, different door.
The neon signs are going dark. The motor courts are being razed. The last person who remembers what a place looked like in 1962 is in their eighties. The window to record any of this is closing — not eventually, now.
Rooted & Remembered is the reason the Habitus engine exists in public. Before a capability lands in a professional model, it earns its keep on something real, observable, and worth preserving.