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18-FEB-2007

Mortality, Shoshone, California, 2007

Peering into the old Chevy I used to lead off this gallery, I noticed areas of rusty decay on the inside of the driver’s door. I use this texture as context, and superimposed the shadow of the steering wheel upon it. This image is about destruction from within. On the outside, this Chevy may look indestructible (see the first image in this gallery.) But on the inside, as this image reveals, it proves all too mortal.

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Phil Douglis03-Mar-2007 20:12
The wheel is really the subject here -- the ghost of the driver lives on, while its car decays around him. Thanks, Tim, for making this observation.
Tim May03-Mar-2007 18:32
My attention is not on the decay but the shadow of the steering wheel - which evokes the ghostly driver - the past is still in the present.
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