This 38-by-67-inch horizontal panorama documents Edgewater Park on Cleveland’s Lake Erie shore—the city’s premier lakefront recreational space offering public access to the Great Lakes waterfront. The nearly six-foot width captures the park’s expansive character where Cleveland meets Lake Erie.

Created in 1992, the work documents recreational landscape in counterpoint to the industrial sites dominating Hayashi’s Cleveland documentation. Edgewater Park represents the public amenities that industrial prosperity once funded: lakefront parkland providing workers and their families access to natural beauty despite urban industrialization. The park’s creation in the early twentieth century reflected progressive-era belief that public green space benefited working populations.

The park’s Lake Erie setting placed visitors in direct relationship with the Great Lakes system that had enabled Cleveland’s industrial development. Iron ore from Minnesota, coal from Pennsylvania, and manufactured goods all moved through these waters. The recreational landscape existed within sight of the industrial infrastructure that defined Cleveland’s economy.

The horizontal format captures the lake’s expanse and the park’s sweep along the shoreline. The photo collage technique fragments this recreational space while revealing the composition’s multiple layers: foreground park features, middle-ground beach, background lake extending to the horizon.

Edgewater Park continues serving Cleveland’s population, its public purpose persisting while the industrial economy it once complemented has largely vanished. This panorama captures the park as recreational counterweight to industrial Cleveland, documenting the urban landscape beyond factories and steel mills.