I wanted to show how cars appear in typical street view which is rarely the subject of
photographs. Cars are usually avoided in photography - one waits until a car has exited a view.
The ordinary presence of cars is rarely worthy of representation. It's always the special car
or the extreme traffic jam or of course the exciting crash that is being pictured. The Cars
pays tribute to the shapes and forms we look at every day. How much time we spend with them
sitting inside them the endless hours we stare at a dashboard. Even if we don't own a car
ourselves their presence is unavoid¬able. Cars are everywhere. Their sheer number is the most
crazy thing about them. They appear in our lives with excessive omnipresence. In their volume
cars intrude upon public space and the way they occupy streets and open areas is rarely
challenged. Virtually wherever there are people there are cars and they are visually
intermingling in whatever we see. We are looking at the world from a car and cars are in the
foreground the background or in between of what is in our view. Where they are they add a
tone a note a presence a noise to the setting they're in. [...]
