ABSTRACT
There is a roadside car crash shrine I often drive by near my home in Austin, Texas. The shrine commemorates the loss of four siblings who died in a car accident on February 28, 2010: Paul Gonzalez, age 9; Noel Gonzalez, age 8; Angelina Gonzalez, age 6; and Aaliyah Ann Gonzalez, age 5. Although I see the shrine often in the midst of my everyday journeys, I only stop to photograph it when I notice a significant change to the site. Because the shrine has changed a lot since I first saw it, and because my relationship with the site continues to deepen with each visit to it, I have come to see the shrine as a kind of index of my research on crash shrines in general.
