Townes Ferry Pike traces an imagined road through the outskirts of Shelbyville, McMinnville, Woodbury, Columbia, Murfreesboro, and surrounding unincorporated communities in Middle Tennessee. Begun in 2022, the project emerged from a period of transition, as a place once considered temporary gradually became home. The photographs dwell in overlooked pockets and local spaces, capturing moments of tender intimacy, quiet solitude, and fleeting joy. Featuring wanderers, friends, and lovers on the edges of small towns and expansive natural settings, the work is grounded in gesture, presence, and the expressive language of the body.

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Balancing lyrical documentary with the tension of staged tableaux, White creates portraits that activate narrative through interaction, atmosphere, and setting. Rather than constructing a literal sense of place, Townes Ferry Pike offers an emotional mapping shaped by color, gesture, and the haziness of a never-ending summer afternoon. The work reflects on how space and time blur in these towns, engaging with the projected mysticism of the South while acknowledging photography as an act filtered through cultural and subjective perception.