Descansos: Roadside Memorials of the Southwest is a collaborative photographic project exploring themes of grief, remembrance, and public expression across the highways and backroads of the American Southwest. “Descansos,” Spanish for “resting places,” mark the sites where lives were suddenly and tragically lost. These roadside memorials—crosses, flowers, photographs, candles, toys, and personal mementos—speak to the love left behind and the lives we’re often left to imagine.