There are no people in this image, yet it speaks strongly to me of human values. Waste is a human value, and the ravaged hulks of ruined automobiles piled upon each other can be seen as a powerful symbol of a culture that spends much of its wealth on resources that are eventually towed away and junked. An optimist might see this image as a resource in itself because some of this debris might eventually be recycled. Yet I saw and photographed it as a colossal pile of rusted and smashed steel that represented the dreams and perhaps even the identity of the people who once owned these cars. Those dreams also represent human values. My tight framing suggests that this pile of broken cars spreads far beyond the borders of this image – the wastage goes on and on and on. It never really ends, because many of us will eventually throw away much of what we make, buy and use.