More Research

I got inspiration from what happened on Friday and from looking at the pictures of my trashed car. Since I lost the subject of my project (since i was supposed to be filming from my car and using the mirrors), I was thinking of what I could do to do to reflect the development and to give me work to do until the next time I can get use of a car (which will be the weekend beginning the 27th).

Since my own car might be written off and scrapped, I'm inspired and want to look into cars after their journeys are over, so I'll visit a scrapyard or two and make some images, which I then want to make a video of.

For inspiration, I remembered an artist I came across who's made apocalyptic style pieces of art, however many of them feature battered and bruised cars that look like they've been ruined. His name is Scott Wolfson and I really like the pieces that show the demise of an object. It's the thought that someone once cherished the cars, used them, possibly even named them.

Below are some of Scott's pieces of art. I like the broken, disused, unloved feel that radiates from the cars in the images.





I also searched for more inspirational image, finding quite a few images.

Ber Murphy's image from the series "Remnants:- California Wildfires 2007"
Troy Paiva photographs "Lost America" and specialises in light painting. While I'm not sure that's a route I want to go down, I do like the content of his images from junk and scrap yards, the angles and the approaches to the abandoned transport etc. I have included more of them below...

I already have some images that I made at a scrapyard in Grimsby which I'm going to retrieve and look at how they can influence me for when I go and photograph one.