Printed as black on aluminum using an anodized process, "Car Obscura" explores the automobile as a picture making device, much like a camera obscura. Taken at dusk while driving, and using the windshield or mirror as the lens, these images provide blurry glimpses of bridges and billboards, stretches of highway and streaks of street lights. Some of the photographs are abstracted through rain splatters on the windshield or the interruption of the steering wheel's arc; others suggest a narrative when a lit-up house floats by or another car is sighted in the rear view mirror. They focus on how interior and isolating driving can be, while the outside world is experienced as a shifting array of projections. |
