Becca Screnock
The Loneliest Road
The Loneliest Road is an ongoing visual narrative exploring my feelings of solitude and sense of self after relocating to the American West. To navigate these emotions, I began driving along U.S. Route 50, nicknamed the Loneliest Road for its long stretches of remote landscape. I started searching for unexpected surprises through unplanned detours – often turning down dirt roads, curious to see where they lead. In these overlooked, forgotten, and disappearing places, I feel a palpable sense of strangeness and wonder. I draw upon this feeling to create images, exploring how I shape, and am shaped by my environment.
When I’m in an unfamiliar place, a part of me feels disoriented, questioning the understanding I once had of myself. This sense is heightened by the vastness here in the West, offering a rare opportunity for self-realization and expression. Using the landscape, found props, and intuitively staged gestures, I create meaning and connection in the midst of vastness and disconnection. With each new image, I am building an ongoing visual narrative, which is constantly evolving and redefining itself in response to each new image. I sequence these images like an ambiguous travelogue, or even a dream, or a memory. There is no beginning or end.
Artist Bio
Becca Screnock is a Salt Lake City-based artist whose photography work focuses on overlooked moments, intimacy, and relationships between people and spaces. She studied Fine Art with a focus on Painting at the University of Wisconsin before completing the One-Year Creative Practices Program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), as a Director’s Fellow. Since graduating in 2021, she has volunteered as an online TA for the ICP One-Year Creative Practices Program, and Continuing Education Program, as a way of maintaining a strong sense of community, and participates in three different photography critique groups, engaging with meaningful work in all stages of development. Screnock’s work has been included in group exhibitions, such as Correspondence at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York, 9 Artists 9 Stories at Praxis Photo Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN), and The Exhibition Lab Exhibition at Foley Gallery (New York, NY). Her work also recently received honorable mentions as part of the Soho National Photo Competition exhibition this summer at Soho Photo Gallery (New York, NY).