Here's a little film of the last cars to go on and an explanation as to what I am trying to achieve with this piece.
CarProject2
The installation looks at all our relationships with the automobile, from the good to the bad. It is a celebration of everything the car has brought us from the freedom of the open road to the beauty in design but also asks us to consider the impact automobiles have had from the frustration of congestion to, depending on your standpoint, the wars fought over oil and lives lost to bring us the freedom to get from A to B in the easiest and most comfortable manner.
The piece consists of 1500+ diecast models of varying vintage collected over the past year and added to my childhood collection, one acrylic globe of 1.40m diameter, one 45 gallon oil drum and ten litres of used oil.
The oil drains then drips over the course of the day 'into' the drum, forming a pond on one end which drops into a hidden compartment to be taken out and refilled at the beginning of each day.
I hope for the piece to conjure up all sorts of images and interpretations as well as engender plenty of reminiscing as viewers point out toys they once played with or cars they or their fathers owned
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